SOURCE: “Recent American Fiction.” Atlantic Monthly 61, no. 368 (June 1888): 845-48.
In the following excerpt, the critic discusses the perceived inadequacies of Bellamy's comparison of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries through an analysis of the characters and plot, suggesting that the main flaw in the socialist utopia is that Bellamy ignores the factor of human nature.
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