Item #15356 Our Industrial Utopia and Its Unhappy Citizens. David Hilton Wheeler.
Our Industrial Utopia and Its Unhappy Citizens
Our Industrial Utopia and Its Unhappy Citizens

Our Industrial Utopia and Its Unhappy Citizens

Chicago: A C McClurg, 1895.

First Edition. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #15356

Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, light cock, toned, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Nonfiction, conservative utopian work by retired president of Allegheny College and Northwestern University trustee Wheeler. ""We are living in Utopia; the only utopia there is and can be; we have gradually conquered the promised land. It is bounded by the Magna Carta in the rear, by Invention and Ability on the flanks, and by Evolution in the front." With this cheerful diagnosis, David Hilton Wheeler surveyed the borders of Our Industrial Utopia (1895), one of the group of conservative utopias that borrowed the format of the progressive utopian apologue to fantasize about the perfection of the already existing order - Utopia looks rather like the United States in the 1890s." - Jean Pfaelzer; The Utopian Novel in America, 1886–1896: The Politics of Form; page 95. "Living in Utopia, we have not realized our whereabouts because we believed that abundance would produce happiness; and we are not happy. All philosophers are agreed that abundance seldom or never produces happiness. ... I wish to comfort the mourners, partly by pointing them to the riches of our Utopia, partly by laughing them out of imaginary sorrows, partly by exposing some of the inconsistencies of their alleged grievances." ; Ex-Library; 341 pages.

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