Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographical note
- A note on the text
- News from Nowhere
- 1 Discussion and bed
- 2 A morning bath
- 3 The guest house and breakfast therein
- 4 A market by the way
- 5 Children on the road
- 6 A little shopping
- 7 Trafalgar Square
- 8 An old friend
- 9 Concerning love
- 10 Questions and answers
- 11 Concerning government
- 12 Concerning the arrangement of life
- 13 Concerning politics
- 14 How matters are managed
- 15 On the lack of incentive to labour in a communist society
- 16 Dinner in the hall of the Bloomsbury Market
- 17 How the change came
- 18 The beginning of the new life
- 19 The drive back to Hammersmith
- 20 The Hammersmith guest house again
- 21 Going up the river
- 22 Hampton Court, and a praiser of past times
- 23 An early morning by Runnymede
- 24 Up the Thames
- 25 The third day on the Thames
- 26 The Obstinate Refusers
- 27 The upper waters
- 28 The little river
- 29 A resting-place on the upper Thames
- 30 The journey's end
- 31 An old house amongst new folk
- 32 The feast's beginning – the end
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
1 - Discussion and bed
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographical note
- A note on the text
- News from Nowhere
- 1 Discussion and bed
- 2 A morning bath
- 3 The guest house and breakfast therein
- 4 A market by the way
- 5 Children on the road
- 6 A little shopping
- 7 Trafalgar Square
- 8 An old friend
- 9 Concerning love
- 10 Questions and answers
- 11 Concerning government
- 12 Concerning the arrangement of life
- 13 Concerning politics
- 14 How matters are managed
- 15 On the lack of incentive to labour in a communist society
- 16 Dinner in the hall of the Bloomsbury Market
- 17 How the change came
- 18 The beginning of the new life
- 19 The drive back to Hammersmith
- 20 The Hammersmith guest house again
- 21 Going up the river
- 22 Hampton Court, and a praiser of past times
- 23 An early morning by Runnymede
- 24 Up the Thames
- 25 The third day on the Thames
- 26 The Obstinate Refusers
- 27 The upper waters
- 28 The little river
- 29 A resting-place on the upper Thames
- 30 The journey's end
- 31 An old house amongst new folk
- 32 The feast's beginning – the end
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Summary
Up at the League, says a friend, there had been one night a brisk conversational discussion, as to what would happen on the Morrow of the Revolution, finally shading off into a vigorous statement by various friends of their views on the future of the fully-developed new society.
Says our friend: Considering the subject, the discussion was good-tempered; for those present being used to public meetings and after-lecture debates, if they did not listen to each other's opinions (which could scarcely be expected of them), at all events did not always attempt to speak all together, as is the custom of people in ordinary polite society when conversing on a subject which interests them. For the rest, there were six persons present, and consequently six sections of the party were represented, four of which had strong but divergent Anarchist opinions. One of the sections, says our friend, a man whom he knows very well indeed, sat almost silent at the beginning of the discussion, but at last got drawn into it, and finished by roaring out very loud, and damning all the rest for fools; after which befell a period of noise, and then a lull, during which the aforesaid section, having said good-night very amicably, took his way home by himself to a western suburb, using the means of travelling which civilisation has forced upon us like a habit.
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- Morris: News from Nowhere , pp. 3 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995