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`Administrative Nihilism': evolution, ethics and Victorian Utopian Satire *.

From: Utopian Studies  |  Date: 3/22/2001  |  Author: Graff, Ann-Barbara

What sort of earth or heaven would hold any spiritual wealth in it for souls pauperized by inaction? (Eliot, 387)

[W]e little know what we are doing when we cast adrift from system.... Even superstition is a bracing girdle, which the frame that is trained to it can ill afford to lose. (Froude, 178-79)

WE CAN TRACE A GROWING RECOGNITION of the social and political implications of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in the ways in which it is coopted in late Victorian utopian ...

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