Abstract
EDWARD BELLAMY's vision of the future did not find full expression in his classic, Looking Backward.' A whole infinity2 of human development stretched beyond it, but Bellamy had only outlined this when death came to him at the age of forty-eight. His infinity, the higher goal, was based upon a lifelong study of human character, Bellamy's surviving widow and daughter told me.3 They recall, for example, the bearded utopian quizzing his children on their reading, and how he would characteristically ask for their analysis of character, urging his boy of ten and his girl of eight to pass judgment on the motives of the historical figures in Plutarch's Lives. Convinced that these family reminiscenses offered a clue to Bellamy's innermost thought and feeling, I went through his private journals in the Bellamy Collection at Harvard,4 still largely unpublished, and uncovered the psychic orientation of his thought. Bellamy emerges, not as the familiar utopian dreamer, but as
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