TY - ABST T1 - "Letter XXIX. A Dream; or the present state of Man compared with one more perfect" Y1 - 1782 A1 - [John] [Stedman] (d. 1791) KW - Male author AB -

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's weaknesses.

JF - Laelius and Hortensia; or, Thought on the Nature and Objects of Taste and Genius, in a series of letters to Two Friends PB - Ptd. For J. Balfour; and T. Cadell, London CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

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.

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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.

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