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 The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
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Daemon wrote:The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) In Chapter 1 of "The Scarlet Letter" Hawthorne wasted no time to illustrate the ambivalent expectations from "whatever Utopia" the righteous founders of a new colony might have contemplated. Just as the practical necessity of the cemetery was a reality, so was the prison a reality of the Utopian idealism. Sadly.
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Daemon wrote:The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) In Chapter 1 of "The Scarlet Letter" Hawthorne wasted no time to illustrate the ambivalent expectations from "whatever Utopia" the righteous founders of a new colony might have contemplated. Just as the practical necessity of the cemetery was a reality, so was the prison a reality of the Utopian idealism. Sadly.
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Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Is this a virtue or drawback?
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