The part of this story that seems the most utopic is when it describes the human behavior. It says that the Golden Age was an age of "innocence and happiness" and that "truth and right prevailed." That kind of description of human behavior is probably the most utopic thing I can think of. Without those things mentioned, especially truth and right, I could not imagine any kind of society or age being even a little bit pleasant. Those things are what makes something positive and utopic to me.
I also found it very interesting that as the physical environment declined in it's utopic qualities so did the human behavior. I wonder why the author chose to correlate the physical environment with the moral environment, or did he even choose to do that? Is the world we live in similarly correlated? I think so.
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