On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of over 160 " Nationalist Clubs " dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas and working to make them a practical reality.

: Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torture, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

The Whydah was then fitted with 10 additional cannons by its new captain, and 150 members of Bellamy's crew were detailed to man the vessel.

According to surviving members of the crew-two from the Whydah and seven from Bellamy's other fleet ship destroyed by the storm, the Marianne-at the time of its sinking, the ship carried nearly four and a half to five tons of silver, gold, gold dust, and jewelry, which had been divided equally into 180 fifty-pound bags and stored in chests below the ship's deck.

A number of people have remarked on its resemblance to H. G. Wells ' The Shape of Things to Come ; the " sleeper wakes into pseudo-utopia " plot was popularized by Edward Bellamy's best-selling Looking Backward.

Howard read widely, including Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel, Looking Backward, and Henry George's economic treatise, Progress and Poverty, and thought much about social issues.

The first Western texts on revolutionary social theory available in Japan were mostly on anarchism, but Nosaka also enjoyed Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward.

Wyman had been toying with the design of a futuristic building described in Edward Bellamy's science fiction novel and social commentary, Looking Backward: From 2000-1887 ( chapter 10 ).

Another socialist utopia is William Morris ' News from Nowhere, written partially in response to the top-down ( bureaucratic ) nature of Bellamy's utopia, which Morris criticized.

The " explicitly socialist " economy of Oz has been contrasted to other " fantasy " projections of socialist societies, like Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ( 1888 ) and William Morris's News from Nowhere ( 1890 ).

William Morris ( 1834 – 1896 ) published News from Nowhere in 1890, partly as a response to Bellamy's Looking Backwards which he equated with the socialism of Fabians such as Sydney Webb.

William Morris's 1890 utopia News from Nowhere was partly written in reaction to Bellamy's utopia, which Morris did not find congenial.

: In the large brick oven, the bakers produce bread from flour ground at Bellamy's Mills.

Bellamy's riff from " Plug In Baby " was # 13 in Total Guitar's poll of the Top 100 Riffs of All Time.

All of his other Mansons follow this same basic design ( apart from Bellamy's 7-string which was not originally built for him but for a local jazz guitarist ) with some just having different pickups and finishes, as with his mirrored Manson and the rejected " Rust Relic ".

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband Chris Martin of Coldplay, comedian Alexander Armstrong, model Kate Moss, TV presenter / newsreader Fiona Bruce, Chef Gino D ' Acampo, actress Helena Bonham Carter and her partner, director Tim Burton, actors Don Warrington, Hugh Laurie, Kate Winslet, Simon Pegg, Sean Bean, and Jude Law, plus Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher from Oasis, Muse members Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Bellamy's partner actress Kate Hudson as well as author Fay Weldon all live there.

Tunnels are said to run from the church to the Foss ( the stream ), and from the Old Hall site in Tailby's ( now Bellamy's ) field to the church.

The term ballad opera has also been used to describe musicals using folk music, such as The Martins and the Coys in 1944, and Peter Bellamy's The Transports in 1977.

Bellamy's early novels, including Six to One ( 1877 ), Dr. Heidenhoff's Process ( 1880 ), and Miss Ludington's Sister ( 1884 ) were unremarkable works, making use of standard psychological plots.

This phase of Bellamy's life came to an end in 1894, when The New Nation was forced to suspend publication owing to financial difficulties.

The book saw print in 1898 and would prove to be Bellamy's final creation.

* Elizabeth Sadler, " One Book's Influence: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward " The New England Quarterly, Vol.

Whitehouse stars alongside Charlie Higson in a new BBC2 comedy series called Bellamy's People, the first episode was broadcast on 21 January 2010.

Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ( 1888 ) envisions the world of 2000 as interlinked with tubes for delivering goods, while Michel Verne's An Express of the Future ( 1888 ) questions the sensibility of a transatlantic pneumatic subway.

Other science fiction works of the period, including Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and the later Metropolis, dealt with similar themes.

One classic example of such a utopia was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward.

In Francis Bellamy's recollection of the creation of the Pledge, he recalled " At the beginning of the nineties patriotism and national feeling was at a low ebb.

Having received the official blessing of educators, Bellamy's committee now had the task of spreading the word across the nation and of designing an official program for schools to follow on the day of national celebration.

Bellamy's views on immigration and universal suffrage were somewhat less egalitarian.

The fictional " Combe sisters " featured in the BBC 2 series Bellamy's People bear a striking resemblance to the Mitford sisters.

Rocker was particularly impressed by the writings of Constantin Franz, a federalist and opponent of Bismarck's centralized German Empire ; Eugen Dühring, an anti-Marxist socialist, whose theories had some anarchist aspects ; novels like Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ; as well as the traditional socialist literature such as Karl Marx's Capital and Ferdinand Lasalle and August Bebel's writings.

After reading Edward Bellamy's Equality, Pannekoek became a convinced socialist and started studying Karl Marx's theories.

* Samuel Bellamy's life and death are the main subject of the song " The Death of Captain Bellamy ", written and performed by celtic punk band Barren Waves.

In domestic policy the People's Delegation sought socialism based on the Finnish Social Democratic ethos ; their vision of democratic socialism for the country differed sharply from Lenin's dictatorship of the proletariat.

He stressed a social vision that revived and preserved Scotland's communal traditions at a time of strain on the social fabric of the country.

For a period of time the Chinese attempted to become self-reliant, but found that in doing so the country could not break even economically, especially when attempting to maintain a communist vision when it came to economics.

But he discovers that the new country he is sent to is in fact the country of the Tree and Forest of his great painting, now long abandoned and all but destroyed ( except for the one perfect leaf of the title which is placed in the local museum ) in the home to which he cannot return — but the Tree here and now in this place is the true realization of his vision, not the flawed and incomplete form of his painting.

Student-led uprisings in October 1973 led to a new vision of liberating the country from military government for a short period.

... there was one man who not only united high ability with unparalleled opportunity but also knew how to turn budgets into political triumphs and who stands in history as the greatest English financier of economic liberalism, Gladstone ... The greatest feature of Gladstonian finance ... was that it expressed with ideal adequacy both the whole civilisation and the needs of the time, ex visu of the conditions of the country to which it was to apply ; or, to put it slightly differently, that it translated a social, political, and economic vision, which was comprehensive as well as historically correct, into the clauses of a set of co-ordinated fiscal measures ... Gladstonian finance was the finance of the system of ' natural liberty ,' laissez-faire, and free trade ... the most important thing was to remove fiscal obstructions to private activity.

Within this strategic orientation, focus is retained on the academic programme and, more specifically, on three axes of work, namely: Attitude and Behaviour, centred both on academic factors and on increasing the competitiveness of degree courses, in the constant pursuit of quality, excellence and merit ; Research for Chile which seeks in-depth commitment and involvement with the country aimed at achieving insertion, integration and participation between the Public-and Private Sectors, in which academic research and findings based upon truth, goodness and the beauty of human beings, society and nature aspire to contribute to the formation of social innovators of vision and realism ; and The Development of International Links which, through the differentiation of professors and students from a Latin American perspective, endeavours to work in foreign markets ( student and academic staff exchanges ).

Magazines and newspapers called the Ideal Section a vision of the future, and highway officials from across the country visited and wrote technical papers that circulated both in the United States and overseas.

After Bhutto's death, Karzai called her his sister and a brave woman who had a clear vision " for her own country, for Afghanistan, and for the region – a vision of democracy, prosperity, and peace.

And also his vision of a new kind of human being that was going to be formed in this country — although he never specifically said Chinese — ethnic Chinese also — I'd like to think he meant all kinds of people.

What emerges from these philosophies, in the view of Hu, is a country with systematic approach to national structure and development that combines dynamic economic growth, a free market energized by a vigorous " nonpublic " ( i. e., private ) sector, heavy-handed political and media control, personal but not political freedoms, concern for the welfare of all citizens, cultural enlightenment, and a synergistic approach to diverse social issues ( the Scientific Development Perspective ) that lead, in Hu ’ s vision, to a " Harmonious Society ".

In October 1989, at a press conference in Washington, DC, Farrakhan described a 1985 vision which he had in the country of Mexico.

FitzGerald's vision caused great consternation among the church's hierarchy, however, and in 1977 Pope Paul VI personally met with FitzGerald to tell him that " Ireland was a catholic country — perhaps the only one left — and it should stay that way.

At the time, the popular vision of Nazi Germany was that of a country as a monolithic, totalitarian state that ran smoothly at first before gradually breaking down under the strains of war.

This book offered a vision of towns free of slums and enjoying the benefits of both town ( such as opportunity, amusement and good wages ) and country ( such as beauty, fresh air and low rents ).

This was presented to the outside world as Smith's vision for the future of the country.

National Review spread his vision of conservatism throughout the country.

" During this period he became more of a speaker than an organizer, traveling throughout the country and internationally advocating for his vision of Black Power.

Silicon Border ’ s vision is to provide Mexico with an infrastructure that enables high-tech companies anywhere in the world to move manufacturing operations to the country and exploit its competitive advantages such as geographical location, human capital, research, legal and tax benefits, intellectual property, international treaties and logistics provided by the country for manufacturing high technology products while allowing research to develop processes, design, fabrication and testing able to compete with Asian operations and costs.

" Manute's legacy and vision of education and reconciliation, his determination to grow grassroots reconciliation-whether that reconciliation is expressed in a country that divides or holds together, wherever the boundary lines are drawn.

* Public ENUM: The original vision of ENUM as a global, public directory-like database, with subscriber opt-in capabilities and delegation at the country code level in the e164. arpa domain.