Purely fanciful as is his Utopia, and impossible of realization as he knew it to be while men are what they are, and not what they ought to be, it is manifestly a satire on that age, for his republic shunned English errors, and practised social virtues which were not the rule in England.
Although More wrote against Luther, and opposed Henry's Church innovations, we are struck with his Utopian claim for great freedom of inquiry on all subjects, even religion; and the bold assertion that no man should be punished for his religion, because "a man cannot make himself believe anything he pleases," as Henry's six bloody articles so fearfully asserted he must.

The Utopia was written in Latin, but soon translated into English.

We use the adjective _utopian_ as meaning wildly fanciful and impossible: its true meaning is of high excellence, to be striven for--in a word, human perfection.
OTHER WORKS .-- More also wrote, in most excellent English prose, a history of the princes, Edward V.and his brother Richard of York, who were murdered in the Tower; and a history of their murderer and uncle, Richard III.

This Richard--and we need not doubt his accuracy of statement, for he was born five years before Richard fell at Bosworth--is the short, deformed youth, with his left shoulder higher than the right; crafty, stony-hearted, and cruel, so strikingly presented by Shakspeare, who takes More as his authority.

"Not letting (sparing) to kiss whom he thought to kill ...