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As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of...

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Looking Backward: 2000-1887

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twen...

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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...

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And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Ge...

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Edward Bellamy

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Born: 1850-03-26

Died: 1898-05-22

Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of at least 165 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas and working to make them a practical reality.More