The Restorer of Society to Its Natural State in a Series of Letters to a Fellow Citizen. With a Preface, Containing the Objections of a Gentleman Who Perused the Manuscript, and the Answers of the Author

1801 Spence, Thomas (1750-1814). The Restorer of Society to Its Natural State in a Series of Letters to a Fellow Citizen. With a Preface, Containing the Objections of a Gentleman Who Perused the Manuscript, and the Answers of the Author. London: Ptd. for the Author by A. Searle. Rpt. in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Avero (Eighteenth-Century) Publications Ltd., 1982), 69-103. Version of 1803 rpt. in Pig’s Meat: The Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Gallop (Nottingham, Eng.: Spokesman, 1982), 127-65. LU, O

Eutopia similar to 1782, 1795, and 1798 Spence. As in all Spence’s eutopias, this one stresses that land should be in the hands of the local parish with one simple tax that will support all needed services. Public granary; easy divorce; no war; free trade; improved hospitals.