Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Dream of an Ideal City
HE Ideal is the Real well seen - Carlyle. The dreams of yesterday are the realities of to-day. - Carlyle.
Visions are the creators and feeders of mankind - George Eliot.
The accurate final rights of man lie in the far depths of the ideal. Carlyle.
I dreamed in a dream how I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth. I dreamed that it was the new city OF friends; nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love; it led the rest; it was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, and in all their looks and words - W'hitman.
Human Society is progressive - progressive, let us hope, to a higher, a purer, a more unselfish ethical standard - Lord Russell.
I say young men will see visions, and I hope men who are no longer young will see visions, because it is on the visions of the future that there is best hope for the politics of the present; and when you and I cease to dream dreams, it will be time for us to give up being municipal reformers. - Lord Rosebery.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them; but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead - Louisa M. Alcott.
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