Utopia Achieved: A Novel of the Future

TitleUtopia Achieved: A Novel of the Future
Year for Search1912
AuthorsBrinsmade, Herman Hine
Pagination177 pp.
Date Published1912
PublisherBroadway Pub. Co.
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Eutopia set in 1960. Many reforms, particularly in diet, which is primarily vegetarian. The Federal Bureau of Health provides education, ensures that food is pure, and offers free medical care with a stress on prevention. Advances in technology. Five-hour workday. Single tax ensures prosperity. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-1897). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

Illustration

Cover by Maurer [probably Alfred Henry Maurer (1868-1932).

Holding Institutions

DLC, HRC, MoU-St, PSt

Full Text

1912 Brinsmade, Herman Hine. Utopia Achieved: A Novel of the Future. Cover by Maurer [probably Alfred Henry Maurer (1868-1932)]. New York: Broadway Pub. Co. 177 pp. Rpt. without the cover. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. DLC, HRC, MoU-St, PSt

Eutopia set in 1960. Many reforms, particularly in diet, which is primarily vegetarian. The Federal Bureau of Health provides education, ensures that food is pure, and offers free medical care with a stress on prevention. Advances in technology. Five-hour workday. Single tax ensures prosperity. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-1897). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.