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THE UTOPIA
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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NSW YORK • BOSTON • CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON • BOMBAY • CALCUTTA MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
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SIR THOMAS MORE
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THE UTOPIA
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SIR THOMAS MORE
EDITED
WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY BY
WILLIAM DALLAM AEMES, M.L.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OP AMERICAN LITERATURE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
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Copyright, 1912, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 191
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As it represents more nearly than any other what the Utopia would have been had More written it in English instead of Latin, the first edition of the first English translation, as reprinted by Dr. Lupton, has been taken as the basis of the text of this edition. The spelling and, so far as possible, the paragraphing have, however, been modernized; palpable misprints have been corrected, and single words omitted by Robynson from his first edition but given in his second have been inserted within brackets. Clauses and sentences that were omitted from both editions of Robynson's translation have, moreover, been sup- plied from Burnet's ; but in every case such insertion is indicated in the notes. In one case, where Robyn- son was too plain-spoken for modern taste, the corre- sponding sentence from Burnet has been substituted without indication ; and one sentence has been omitted without any substitution.
These changes have been made that college students in classes in English literature, for whom this edition
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is intended, might get More's thought with the maxi- mum of pleasure and the minimum of difficulty. " No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en."
The notes show the obligations of the present editor to his predecessors. In particular is he in- debted to Dr. Lupton, whose monumental edition of More's Latin and Robynson's translation superseded all previous editions of the Utopia and made it practi- cally necessary for all subsequent ones to depend largely upon it. In the Introduction free use has been made of. an article on "A First Fruit of the Renaissance in England, More's 'Utopia'" that the writer contributed to the July, 1911, number of The University of California Chronicle.
W. D. A.
Berkeley, California, September, 1911.
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CONTENTS
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