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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION. The Utopian Propensity -- PART I. The Ancient and Medieval Wellsprings -- 1. Paradise and the Millennium -- 2. The Golden Age of Kronos -- 3. The Great Transmission -- PART II. The Birth of Utopia -- 4. The Passion of Thomas More -- 5. A Città Felice for Architects and Philosophers -- 6. Heaven on Earth for the Common Man -- PART III. Flowering and Death of the Christian Utopia -- 7. Pansophia: A Dream of Science -- 8. Bruno, the Magus of Nola -- 9. Bacon, Trumpeter of New Atlantis IO. Campanella's City of the Sun -- 10. Campanella's City of the Sun -- 11. Andreae, Pastor of Christianopolis -- 12. Comenius and His Disciples -- 13. Topsy-Turvy in the English Civil War -- 14. The Sun King and His Enemies -- I 5. Leibniz: The Swan Song of the Christian Republic -- PART IV. Eupsychias of the Enlightenment -- 16. The Philosophes's Dilemma -- 17. The Monde Idéal of Jean-Jacques -- 18. Freedom from the Wheel -- 19. Turgot on the Future of Mind -- 20. Condorcet: Progression to Elysium -- 21. Kant: Beyond Animality -- PART V. A Revolutionary Diptych -- 22. New Faces of Love -- 23. Equality or Death -- PART VI. The Union of Labor and Love -- 24. The Battle of the Systems -- 25. Saint-Simon: The Pear Is Ripe -- 26. Children of Saint-Simon: The Triumph of Love -- 27. Fourier: The Burgeoning of Instinct -- 28. Owen's New Moral World -- PART VII. Marx and Counter-Marx -- 29. Marx and Engels in the Landscape of Utopia -- 30. Comte, High Priest of the Positivist Church -- 31. Anarchy and the Heroic Proletariat -- PART VIII. The Twilight of Utopia -- 32. Utopia Victoriana -- 33. Darwinism, the Ambiguous Intruder -- 34. Freudo-Marxism, a Hybrid for the Times -- EPILOGUE. The Utopian Prospect -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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In the world of today, it is not a matter of whether the East or the West should lead. We all face one universal problem—how to live together in peace. The U. S. cannot act alone, and our most natural allies are the nations of the West. The world, however is bigger than the West, and the West cannot face the Communist empires alone. We need the friendship of the non-Communist nations of Africa and Asia. But, because of the nature of nuclear weapons, there cannot exist in the world two polarized ideological camps. A partner ship between Asia and Africa and the West can work. Freedom will not survive in Africa and Asia unless they can achieve a decent standard of living. The U. S. should lead in acting as banker for the underdeveloped countries as the organizer of the surplus wealth of the non-Communist world. In the Near East there is a great opportunity for Asia and the West to work together. The alliance could bring pressure on the Arabs and the Russians to have the Arabs give up their state of war against Israel. The greatest achievement of the alliance would be to compel all nations to join in an attack against war itself. Dis armament will never take place if negotiations are left only to Russia and the U. S. We must bring Asia, Africa, and South America into the discussions. The problems of easing world tensions and controlling war weapons are interrelated. Lead ership, then, is the responsibility of all nations working in concert to eliminate the possibility of a war of total destruc tion.—Ed.