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...recommends the precautions used in marriages among the Utopians In Utopia, More describes a custom where prospective spouses see each other naked before marriage to avoid later regrets., it makes one think that he had some misfortune in his own choice, and that therefore he was so cautious on that subject original: "Head". However, the strictness of his life protects original: "covers" him from severe criticism original: "Censures". His description of original: "setting out" such a barbaric practice as the hiring of assassins to kill original: "take off" enemies is so wild and so immoral that it does not allow for anything to soften or excuse it, much less to justify it. Additionally, advising men in some cases to end their own lives This refers to the Utopian practice of voluntary euthanasia for the terminally ill., notwithstanding all the caution with which he frames original: "guards" it, is a piece of harsh and fierce philosophy. The most sensitive original: "tenderest" part of the whole work was the representation he gives of Henry the Seventh’s court and his discussions upon it, towards the