Utopia

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• The penalty is too harsh in itself, yet it isn't an effective deterrent. Simple theft is not so great a crime that it ought to cost a man his head, yet no punishment however sever can withhold a man from robbery when he has no other way to eat...Severe and terrible punishments are enacted against theft, when it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it (查看原文)

  Baristina 1赞 2013-06-12 16:49:11

• Raphael...is already known as a comfortable, sociable archangel...The first root of "Hythloday" is surely Greek huthlos, meaning "nonsense"; the second part of the name may suggest daien, to distribute, i.e., a nonsense-peddler. A fantastic trilingual pun could make the whole name mean "God heals [Heb., Raphael] through the nonsense [Gr., huthlos] of God [Lat., dei]." (查看原文)

  Baristina 2013-06-11 21:27:41

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