A LITERARY BLUNDER.

When the Utopia of sir Thomas More was first published, it occasioned a

pleasant mistake. This political romance represents a perfect, but

visionary republic, in an island supposed to have been newly discovered

in America. As this was the age of discovery, (says Granger,) the

learned Budæus, and others, took it for a genuine history; and

considered it as highly expedient, that missionaries should be sent

thither, in order to convert so wise a nation to Christianity.

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