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Furthermore, they were never yet able to find out the second

intentions; insomuch that none of them all could ever see man

himself in common, as they call him, though he be (as you know)

bigger than was ever any giant, yea, and pointed to of us even

with our finger.') He is very severe on the sports of the gentry;

the Utopians count 'hunting the lowest, the vilest, and the most

abject part of butchery.' He quotes the words of the Republic in

which the philosopher is described 'standing out of the way under

a wall until the driving storm of sleet and rain be overpast,'

which admit of a singular application to More's own fate;

although, writing twenty years before (about the year 1514), he

can hardly be supposed to have foreseen this.