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The community of property is a fixed idea with him, though he is

aware of the arguments which may be urged on the other side

('These things (I say), when I consider with myself, I hold well

with Plato, and do nothing marvel that he would make no laws for

them that refused those laws, whereby all men should have and

enjoy equal portions of riches and commodities. For the wise men

did easily foresee this to be the one and only way to the wealth

of a community, if equality of all things should be brought in

and established' (Utopia).). We wonder how in the reign of Henry

VIII, though veiled in another language and published in a

foreign country, such speculations could have been endured.