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town seems to have taken care of nothing more than
of their gardens; for they say, the whole scheme of
the town was designed at first by Utopus, but he left movements but by the establishment of small local inten-
all that belonged to the ornament and improvement tional communities (groups formed to live a common life
of it to be added by those that should come after defined by the consensus of its members rather than by
him, that being too much for one man to bring to external political or religious institutions.
perfection.Their records, that contain the history of
Thomas L. Long
their town and State, are preserved with an exact
care, and run backward 1,760 years. From these it
appears that their houses were at first low and
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Taliban’s resistance to the Soviet presence in Afghanistan
put into power Islamic republics whose laws were said to
reflect the Quran and Muslim law, or sharia. The terror-
ist entity al-Qaeda might be more coherently understood
as a militant movement following a utopian ideal.
Even in the West, many people are discontented with
what they see as the deterioration of social life and the
ethos of a commonwealth. Some of these will most likely
take action, not through broadly based utopian political