I know he approves of me, and I especially admire his excellent learning and precise diligence, and I shall strive to emulate him. I would also like for you to send, as I have said, or tell Moro one or two greetings from me. He is a man whom I have long since placed, in my opinion and in my speech, in the most sacred album register or list of Minerva the Roman goddess of wisdom. I highly love and venerate him regarding Utopia, the island of the new world. For our age and future ages will hold its history as a nursery of elegant and useful institutions, from which each person may import and adapt transplanted customs into their own city. Farewell. Paris, the day before the Calends of August July 31st.

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HIERONYMVS BVSLIDIVS Jerome de Busleyden TO THOMAS MORE

S. D. Salutem Dicit: Sends greetings

Most distinguished More, it was not enough formerly to have applied all care, effort, and study to the matter and advantage of individuals, unless you were also to confer these things—such is your piety and liberality—upon the whole, thinking that this benefit of yours, of whatever kind it may be...