A philosopher and his companion, walking in the Alps, step through into a parallel Earth organized as a rationally planned world-state, and debate how such a utopia could actually be governed and kept free.
Books mentioned in A Modern Utopia (2)
Armata by Thomas Erskine: “Lord Erskine, the author of a Utopia ("Armata") that might have been inspired by Mr. Hewins, was the first of all Utopists to perceive this”
News from Nowhere by William Morris: “In almost every Utopia--except, perhaps, Morris's "News from Nowhere"--one sees handsome but characterless buildings”