@booklet {7180, title = {"Letter XXIX. A Dream; or the present state of Man compared with one more perfect"}, howpublished = {Laelius and Hortensia; or, Thought on the Nature and Objects of Taste and Genius, in a series of letters to Two Friends}, year = {1782}, note = {

Rpt. (New York: Garland, 1970), 277-88. Rpt. as \“The present State of Man, compared to one more perfect. A Dream. In a letter to Hortensia.\” The Ladies Magazine; and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge 1.5 (October 1792): 218-23 [The cover of the volume has Lady\’s Magazine, but each issue is headed Ladies Magazine]; and as \“The present State of Man, compared to one more perfect. A Dream: From Lelius and Hortensia.\” The Massachusetts Magazine: or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment 7.5 (August 1795): 261-64.

}, month = {1782}, pages = {277-88}, publisher = {Ptd. For J. Balfour; and T. Cadell, London}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot.}, abstract = {

Eutopia set on the moon, which is visited in a dream. The people are ruled by reason and motivated by benevolence. Mostly a comparison with earth\&$\#$39;s weaknesses.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {[John] [Stedman] (d. 1791)} }