However, the shortcomings of human nature, as acknowledged by More, preclude the implementation of his utopia. What makes it impossible to implement were the prevailing political realities of the era in which he wrote (and which prevail today still). It is not believable that private property will ever be done away with or that society will ever be again a moneyless entity, short of post-nuclear war catastrophe.
To be fair to More, he himself recognized that his utopia was not likely to be manifested in the real world. He notes in the final lines of the work that his utopia is regrettably more a wish than a possibility in his own time: "I freely confess that in the Utopian commonwealth there are many features that in our own societies I would like rather than expect to see" (More 111). The question of More's view of human nature, and his general optimism about the positive social nurturing which could bring out the best in that nature, is a question of virtue. How good is man as he is, and hoe good could he be made if society encouraged goodness rather
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