1709

Anon. The Island of Content: or, A New Paradise Discover'd. In a Letter from Dr. Merryman of the same Country, to Dr. Dullman of Great Britain. By the Author of the Pleasures of a single Life. London, Printed and sold by J. Baker, at the Black Boy in Pater- Noster Row, 1709 6d

-A Utopian novel (more or less)--a vision of a perfect society and situation.

-They allow no astrologers: "...for you must know we dread nothing so much as the Subversion of our Government, and the Change of our Constitution; for having a due Sense of our own Happiness, we are well assur'd, from the sad Expreience of other Countries, that nothing but Misery would attend a Revolution." (p. 4)