Edward Bellamy
Edward Bellamy
Edward Bellamywas an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of at least 165 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas and working to make them a practical reality...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 March 1850
CityChicopee, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.
With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.
Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture...have simply made us all members of one class.
No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.