Utopographer

Mr. Plantagenet-Buchan knitted his brows. "Utopographer? Or was it a Utopologist? Or Utopolitan? Not a bad word, Utopolitan. No—it was Utopographer. I read it in one of the weeklies downstairs, the Spectator or the Nation or the Saturday. We might lead the talk rather carelessly towards Utopias and see what happened."

Whether or not this guidance was useful we cannot judge, but in any event no short cuts for skippers are possible in Mr. Wells's latest book, which is supposed to be the picture of a lady, but is in reality the portrait of a gentleman bent on reforming the world—a Utopographer, the author calls him—by name Mr. Sempack.

What holds all these disparate forces together, along with such latter-day utopographers as [Burrhus Frederic] Skinner and Aldous Huxley (in Island, not in his earlier satire of the positive utopia, Brave New World), is faith.

Unlike utopographers who describe the future world as static and readymade, [Vladimir] Lenin shows the process and the mechanism through which "imperfect" socialists may move towards "perfect" communism: not by rocket, space ship, or time machine, but by long economic development under the auspices of socialist organizations.