There are works, and this is one of them, that are best begun with a portrait of the author

The idea of individual liberty is one that has grown in importance and grows with every development of modern thought.

“A position, I can assure you, demanding Tact of an altogether superhuman quality!”

“What the devil!” said Bailey. “Looks as if someone was shooting at him.”

Our world is still vindictive, but the all-reaching State of Utopia will have the strength that begets mercy.

“In Utopia everything would have been different,” I say.

This throws me back upon my private observations.

My Utopian self is, of course, my better self—according to my best endeavours—and I must confess myself fully alive to the difficulties of the situation.

Neither my Utopian double nor I love emotion sufficiently to cultivate it, and my feelings are in a state of seemly subordination when we meet again.

No generalisations about race are too extravagant for the inflamed credulity of the present time.

“I've been in the gardens on the river terrace,” he answers, “hoping I might see her again.”

The New Age of Aquarius envisions a society of collective harmony and individual freedom, where technology amplifies creativity.