Mr.Barton's Sermon passage from Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy

      Edward Bellamy published his novel- Looking Backward- which depicts a Utopian world of twentieth century in nineteen century. This particular passage of chapter twenty six is about the dialogue of Doctor Leete and Julian West, a 19^th century aristocrat who falls asleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year of 2000. The doctor gives Julian a sermon about the different between 19^th century and 20^th century. Comparing to a feudal, agricultural society, the industrial system of private capital in 19^th century is much more efficiency, yet its problem is that the gap between rich and poor becomes larger and larger. “If you would see man again the beasts of prey they seemed in the nineteenth century, all you have to do is to restore the old social and industrial system, which taught them to view their natural prey in their fellow-men, and find their gain in the loss of others”. However, Bellamy attempts to persuade readers of a new century in which an economy based on publicly-owned capital would enhance the characteristics that nineteenth-century society admired most about their industrial system. He argues that his ideal society would be vastly more efficient; labor would never be idle, and supply would far more closely match demand. Bellamy believes that this society will bring us “liberty, equality, fraternity”, and happiness will follow.                                                             
 

The Happy Valley by Samuel Johnson

My Happy Valley.













It seems to be happy to me that this valley is happy place to live because of its safety position and its convenient supplies. The Valley is "surrounded by every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage, by which it could be entered, was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry". There are rivulets on every side of the mountains  to form a big lake with "fish of every species". Trees with delicious fruits cover sides of the mountains as well. Even the animals can be safe from their predators in the valley. "The valley, wide and fruitful, supplied its inhabitants with necessaries of life. The princess lives in the valley can be entertained everyday with songs.
However it is totally isolated from the outside people. It is a common sense that we can appreciate what we have if we do not contribute to create or build it. It is like that we don not know what is really happiness if we have not experienced sadness or disappointed moment.