More: Utopia (1685 Burnet Translation)

...with Raphael Raphael Hythloday, the fictional world traveler who discovered Utopia. himself, or even know how to write to him.

I have another difficulty that weighs on me even more, making it even more necessary for you to write to him. I do not know who is to blame—Raphael, you, or myself—for just as we did not think to ask, he did not think to tell us in what part of the New World Utopia is located. This was such an oversight that I would gladly pay any price to correct it. I am ashamed that after I have described so many details concerning this island, I cannot tell my readers in which sea it lies.

There are some among us who have a great desire to go there. In particular, one devout theologian original: "pious Divine" is very eager about it—not so much out of a vain curiosity to see unknown countries, but so that he may promote our religion, which has been so successfully started there. To do this properly, he intends to obtain a mission from the Pope and to be sent there as their bishop. In a case like this, he has no hesitation in aspiring to that office original: "Character"; referring to the official status or "character" of a bishop; he even thinks it is meritorious to be ambitious for it when one desires it only to advance the Christian Religion, and not for any honor or profit original: "Advantage" that may come from it, but is motivated purely by a pious zeal.