A Crystal Age

Abstract

In The Purple Land, Richard Lamb states:

It is so often said that an ideal state — an Utopia where there is no folly, crime, or sorrow — has a singular fascination for the mind. … [But] I hate all dreams of perpetual peace, all wonderful cities of the sun, where people consume their joyless monotonous years in mystic contemplations, or find their delight like Buddhist monks in gazing on the ashes of dead generations of devotees. The state is one unnatural, unspeakably repugnant; the dreamless sleep of the grave is more tolerable to the active, healthy mind than such an existence.⁹⁴