How Did Sir Thomas Influence European Society?

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“Every daring escape attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian” (Emma Goldman). Sir Thomas More was a philosopher who died trying to speak out against the government . Utopia is a work of Sir Thomas from the early 16th century, where it express Sir Thomas’s ideas of how a leader should rule his kingdom and his beliefs on how to make European society better. King Henry VIII, who was the ruler of England at the early 16th century, ruler, Sir Thomas more believed that King henry should have ruled his kingdom where a king should have treated his subjects fairly and putting his own subjects first before himself. European society in the 1500’s, it’s