# Thomas Spence — The Story of Utopias character guide

> Thomas Spence in The Story of Utopias by Lewis Mumford.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Spence

**First appearance:** 0003-the-story-of-utopias

## Who they are

English radical and land reformer who proposed a utopian commonwealth.

## In the story

### [How some utopians have thought that a good community rested at bottom on the right division and use of land; and what sort of communities these land-animals projected.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/vii)

Proposed a system of land nationalization and communal ownership as the basis for a just society.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/i)

Spensonia is mentioned as a utopia founded on common possession of land.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/ii)

Author of Spensonia utopia; proposed communal land ownership and parish-based governance.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/v)

Spence is mentioned alongside Fourier as an exception to the trend of mechanical utopias.

### [Bibliography](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/bibliography)

Included as a figure given space in the bibliography to restore his place.

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