SOURCE: An excerpt from The Story of Utopias, Boni and Liveright, Inc., 1922, pp. 81-99.

In the following excerpt from his critical study The Story of Utopias, Mumford analyzes Andreae 's Utopian vision in the Christianopolis with an emphasis on the structure of the city, industry, and society.

[The] man who next conducts us into Utopia is a Humanist scholar. After the manner of his time, he answers to the latinized name, Johann Valentin Andreæ. He is a traveller, a social reformer, and above all things a preacher; and so the vision he imparts to us of Christianopolis seems occasionally to flicker into blackness whilst he moralizes for us and tells us to the point of tedium what his views are concerning the life of man, and in particular the conceptions of Christianity which his countrymen, the Germans, are debating about. Sometimes, when we are on the point of...