More: Utopia (1685 Burnet Translation)

...a few days before from the author, and that is dated the first of November of that year. However, I cannot imagine how he comes to be called Sheriff of London in the title of the book, for his name is not to be found in any of our printed catalogs of Sheriffs. Thomas More served as Under-Sheriff of London from 1510 to 1518, but the translator is likely looking for him in the list of High Sheriffs.

I do not consider myself responsible for the subject matter of his book, any more than any other translator is for his author. Nor do I think More himself truly supported original: "went in heartily to" what is the chief basis of his Utopia: the abolition of all property and the leveling of the world original: "levelling the World"; this refers to radical social and economic equality. Instead, I believe he only intended to place many notions in his reader's way. So that he might not seem too much in earnest, he took such an unconventional approach original: "went so far out of all Roads" to make his ideas less suspected. The earnestness with which he recom-