[558] Utopia, 1st ed. ‘De Re Militari.’ Leaf k, iii.
[559] Utopia, 1st ed. Leaves m, iv. v.
[560] More’s English Works: The Apology, p. 850.
[561] Utopia, 1st ed. Leaf h, i.
[562] Utopia, 1st ed. Leaf f, iii.
[563] Ibid. chap. ‘De Urbibus,’ Leaf f, i.
[564] I may be allowed to refer the reader to the valuable mention of ‘Utopia’ in the preface to Mr. Brewer’s Calendar of the Letters, &c. of Henry VIII. vol. ii. cclxvii et seq., where its connection with the political and social condition of Europe at the time is well pointed out.
[565] In support of the abstract here given of the moral philosophy of the Utopians, see Utopia, 1st ed. Leaf h, ii. et seq.
For the following careful translation of the most material part of it, I am indebted to the Rev. W. G. Rouse, M.A.
‘The same points of moral philosophy are discussed by the Utopians as by us. They inquire what is “good” in respect as well of the mind as of the body, as also of external things; also, whether the title “good” be applicable to all these, or to the mental qualities alone. They discuss “virtue” and “pleasure.” But their first and principal topic of debate is concerning human “happiness”—on what thing or things they consider it to depend.