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Utopia
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ UTOPIA  perhaps linked to UTERUS
          id+ NO PLACE an not      sug> ECTOPIC
  EUTOPIA as if                    sug> EUGENIC
  EU = GOOD and TOPOS = PLACE      sug> ECSTASY
  perhaps there is a RIDDLE here by Thomas MORE
  perhaps HUMAN EUTOPIA requires a UTERUS in contrast to
  UTOPIA which is NO PLACE and may suggest that
  IDEAS or THINGS are UTOPIC unless
  GESTATED OR REPLICATED IN UTERO
  hx> lit+ Thomas MORE [#] probably INVENTED THIS WORD
           by FUSING THE GREEK PREFIXES
  EU and OU found in the title of his book of 1515
  UTOPIA whose TOPIC concerns   see> MATRIMONY
  "THE BEAUTIFUL PLACE THAT IS NO PLACE "
  note that 9 YEARS LATER HIS FRIEND
  Desiderius ERASMUS [#] PUBLISHED AT THE URGING OF MORE
  "Praise of Folly" dealing with a similar theme
  ERASMUS REMAINED CATHOLIC IN PROTESTANT NETHERLANDS
  MORE DID THE SAME IN ENGLAND AND LOST HIS HEAD
  note MODERN UTOPIAS as defined by MARX [#]   <sug
       HITLER  STALIN and other DREAMERS
  such dreamers often do not relate well to
  see> WOMAN WOMB 
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