III
ONE COUNTRY TAKEN AS AN EXAMPLE
We used to pay too little attention to utopias, or even disregard them altogether, saying with regret they were impossible of realization. Now indeed they seem to be able to be brought about far more easily than we supposed, and we are actually faced by an agonizing problem of quite another kind: how can we prevent their final realization?
—Nikolai Berdyaev, The Philosophy of Freedom