Utopia

"Golden Book, as useful as the funny about the best structure of the state and about the new island of utopia" is the most famous book of an outstanding English lawyer, statesman, humanist Thomas Mora (1478-1535) Her first edition was prepared by a friend of Thomas Mora, the great thinker of the Renaissance, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and was published in 1516 in the Belgian city of Levven. In the author’s homeland, the first English translation saw the light only in 1551, after the execution of the Mora and the death of King Henry VIII - first the patron of the thinker, and then his pursuer.
Many social groups have tried in practice to implement "recipes for happiness" Thomas Mora. It turned out not very and not for long. The more or less successful experience in the embodiment of socialist utopia can be considered Israeli kibbets. On the principles of utopia, widespread hippies commune were also built in the West and in the USA in the 60s of the last century. The fate of attempts to realize the utopian principles of socialism in the USSR and other countries of the "socialist camp" is well known. However, all this only confirms the undeniable fact: the “utopia” of Thomas Mora is one of the greatest books ever created by the human genius