You KNOW that I have designedly been kept in ignorance of something attaching to you, which, had I known of it, might have altered all my conduct; and yet you say, what'?
Designedly fantastic in suggestion of details, " Utopia" is the work of a scholar who had read Plato's " Republic, " and had his fancy quickened after reading Plutarch's account of Spartan life under Lycurgus.