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Show BOARD OF REGENTSWilliam W. Riter, ChairmanFrank Pierce Waldemar Van CottCharles G. Plummer Rebecca E. LittleRichard W. Young Joseph T. KingsburyAntoinette B. KinnEy Anthon H. LundCHAPTER I.REGENTSGovernment in Utonia is a labyrinthic system, wonderful in theory, and, for the most part, theoretically executed. It consists of two sorts,-Real and Apparent. The Apparent kindly tolerated by government proper as giving an air of dignity and weight to the political situation; and the Real, a representative system maintained by the populace.At the head of Apparent government, reclines a band of hoary-bearded philosophers, who, after the plan of Plato, take no active part in the concerns of life, but from lofty towers which point into dizzy heights of abstraction, study the heavens and discourse in monotones among themselves. Once during a century, perhaps, a philosopher descends and passes, stately, lost in thought, with eyes closed, through the streets of the realm. The common people pause with bated breath until he returns to his tower, then go on with the clatter of their every day doings. |
