Talk:Aristopia
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The Court for Assessing the Value of Abstract Words and Phrases
[edit]"Holford loads his description of Aristopia with satirical remedies for what he saw as contemporary problems and circumstances. In Aristopian jurisprudence, for example, the Court for Assessing the Value of Abstract Words and Phrases polices the language to prevent abuses; it is the largest and busiest function in the Palace of Justice."
There is no citation for this, and nothing of this sort appears in the 1895 edition of the novel. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002027962s Echinops (talk) 12:22, 2 October 2013 (UTC)Echinops
- This criticism is correct. Deleting the paragraph. -- Evertype·✆ 15:59, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
- The source for this (which is not in the novel itself) is found in a 1921 piece by Arthur Henry Jones, My dear Wells; a manual for the haters of England, being a series of letters upon bolshevism, collectivism, internationalism, and the distribution of wealth, addressed to Mr. H.G. Wells, to be found at