That which is common to all is easily borne.
To accomplish this he ordered a deep channel to be dug, fifteen miles long and that the natives might not think he treated them like slaves, he not only forced the inhabitants, but also his own soldiers, to labor in carrying it on. This deed was greater than channeling the Isthmus. Having soon subdued them, he designed to separate them from the continent, and to bring the sea quite round them. Utopus, that conquered it (whose name it still carries, for Abraxa was its first name), 1 brought the rude and uncivilised inhabitants into such a good government, and to that measure of politeness, that they now far excel all the rest of mankind. The island, after the general Utopus, was called Utopia. But they report (and there remains good marks of it to make it credible) that this was no island at first, but a part of the continent. On the other side of the island there are likewise many harbors and the coast is so fortified, both by nature and art, that a small number of men can hinder the descent of a great army. A stratagem based on the movement of landmarks.įor even they themselves could not pass it safe if some marks that are on the coast did not direct their way and if these should be but a little shifted, any fleet that might come against them, how great soever it were, would be certainly lost. The channel is known only to the natives so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. and may, therefore, easily be avoided and on the top of it there is a tower, in which a garrison is kept the other rocks lie under water, and are very dangerous. In the middle of it there is one single rock which appears above water, A place protected by nature needs only a single garrison. But the entry into the bay, occasioned by rocks on the one hand and shallows on the other, is very dangerous. In this bay there is no great current the whole coast is, as it were, one continued harbor, which gives all that live in the island great convenience for mutual commerce. Between its horns the sea comes in eleven miles broad, and spreads itself into a great bay, which is environed with land to the compass of about five hundred miles, and is well secured from winds. The topography and form of the new island of Utopia. The island of Utopia is in the middle two hundred miles broad, and holds almost at the same breadth over a great part of it, but it grows narrower towards both ends. The Soviet Union honoured him for the Communistic attitude toward property rights expressed in Utopia.CONCERNING THE BEST STATE OF A COMMONWEALTH, Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the "heavenly Patron of Statesmen and Politicians." Since 1980, the Church of England has remembered More liturgically as a Reformation martyr. Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and beheaded. More opposed the King's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. He also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. He was a councillor to Henry VIII and also served as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther Sir Thomas More (/ˈmɔːr/ 7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. Sir Thomas More (/ˈmɔːr/ 7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.
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