SOURCE: "More's Utopia, Campanella's Civitas Solis, and the Christianopolis" in Christianopolis: An Ideal State of the Seventeenth Century, translated by Felix Emil Held, Oxford University Press, 1916, pp. 16-40.

In the following excerpt, Held compares Christianopolis with other seminal Utopian works, and describes Andreae's conception of the utopian state.

[The] chief differences between the works of More and Campanella as compared with Andreae, are not to be superficially sought in [external characteristics]…. The plan and conception of the three seem to be essentially different.

More was closely in touch with political conditions in England and on the Continent. Political reform and his favorite principle of communism are the nucleus of his Utopia, and in direct connection with this principle is the problem of the source of supply for the necessities of life. Hence More makes agriculture the chief occupation, and states that while there are various trades and crafts...