Into the Tenth Millennium

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1956
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Agrarian, somewhat nomadic eutopia, some of which is technically primitive (balloon transport, semaphores for communication) but is socially advanced. A catastrophe caused all metal to become useless; while this made war impossible, there was a widespread famine which produced a dramatic fall in world population. In the future population is controlled. Everyone is wealthy and self-assured. There is no government or belief in a god. Free love and one worldwide language. Initial education is with the mother (fathers are not identified) with no formal education until age forty. The author also wrote a utopian trilogy; see 1950, 1952, and 1954 Capon.

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1956

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William Heinemann
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London
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1956 Capon, [Harry] Paul (1911/12-69). Into the Tenth Millennium. London: William Heinemann. L, O, PSt

Agrarian, somewhat nomadic eutopia, some of which is technically primitive (balloon transport, semaphores for communication) but is socially advanced. A catastrophe caused all metal to become useless; while this made war impossible, there was a widespread famine which produced a dramatic fall in world population. In the future population is controlled. Everyone is wealthy and self-assured. There is no government or belief in a god. Free love and one worldwide language. Initial education is with the mother (fathers are not identified) with no formal education until age forty. The author also wrote a utopian trilogy; see 1950, 1952, and 1954 Capon.

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Capon also wrote a utopian trilogy; see 1950, 1952, and 1954 Capon.

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(1911/12-69)

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