Sir Thomas smacked the humor of the thing, in giving the name _Utopia_, which is Greek for _Nowhere_. If, indeed, men were all honest, and women all virtuous and children all rosy and helpful, we might all live in a Utopia of our own. All the Fourierites--the Socialists--the Knights of Labor might find the germs of their best arguments in this reservoir of the ideal maxims of statecraft. In this model country, gold was held in large disrespect; and to keep the scorn of it wholesome, it was put to the vilest uses: a great criminal was compelled to wear gold rings in his ears: chains were made of it for those in bondage; and a particularly obnoxious character put to the wearing of a gold head-band; so too diamonds and pearls were given over to the decoration of infants; and these, with other baby accoutrements, they flung aside in disgust, so soon as they came to sturdy childhood. When therefore upon a time, Ambassadors came to Utopia, from a strange country, with their tricksy show of gold and jewels--the old Voyager says:-- “You shᵈ have sene [Utopian] children that had caste away their peerles and pretious stones, when they sawe the like sticking upon the Ambassadours cappes;--digge and pushe theire mothers under the sides, sainge thus to them,--‘Loke mother how great a lubbor doth yet were peerles, as though he were a litel child stil!’ ‘Peace sone,’ saith she; ‘I thinke he be some of the Ambassadours fooles.’” Also in this model state industrial education was in vogue; children all, of whatsoever parentage, were to be taught some craft--as “masonrie or smith’s craft, or the carpenter’s science.” Unlawful games were decried--such as “dyce, cardes, tennis, coytes [quoits]--do not all these,” says the author, “sende the haunters of them streyghte a stealynge, when theyr money is gone?” The Russian Count Tolstoi’s opinion that money is an invention of Satan and should be abolished, is set forth with more humor and at least equal logic, in this Latin tractate of More’s. In the matters of Religion King Utopus decreed that “it should be lawful for everie man to favoure and folow what religion he would, and that he mighte do the best he could to bring other to his opinion, so that he did it peaceablie, gentelie, quietlie and sobelie, without hastie and contentious rebuking.”