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Thomas More and His Utopia. With a Historical Introduction

A 1927 International Publishers work, which is an English translation (by H.J. Stenning) of Karl Kautsky's 1888 text. Scanned by Ismail with their permission, sent to him by Nathan O'Connor. https://www.intpubnyc.com/ The whole book can be read in HTML format here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1888/more/index.htm Pages 131-132 were partly torn off. The missing text (which can be found in the aforementioned HTML link) is as follows: ----- [....] King’s service. The latter refuses, and gives his reasons in detail. These passages well deserve quotation. “I wonder, Raphael, how it comes that you enter into no king’s service, for I am sure there are none to whom you would not be very acceptable; for your learning and knowledge, both of men and things, is such, that you would not only entertain them very pleasantly, but be of great use to them, by the examples you could set before them, and the advices you could give them; and by this means you would both serve your own interest, and be of great use to all your friends.” “As for my friends,” answered he, “I need not be much concerned, having already done for them all that was incumbent on me; for when I was not only in good h

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