Noel Hume’s Reviews > Utopia > Status Update

"Indeed [the Utopians] are amazed that any mortal can take delight in the dubious sparkle of a tiny gem or precious stone when he can look at a star or even at the sun, or how anyone could be so insane as to imagine that he is nobler because of fine-spun woolen thread, since that wool (however fine spun) was once worn by a sheep, which was at the same time nothing more than a sheep."