Project Gutenberg 2025-06-21 Public domain in the USA. 134 Canter, Bernard Alexander 1870 1956 Canter, Barend Van den Bosch, G. K. Bosch, G. K. van den Nieuw Utopia $aAmsterdam :$bVan Holkema & Warendorf, $c1922. Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg "Nieuw Utopia" by Bernard Alexander Canter is a utopian-philosophical novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on Professor Godefroy Leyden, an eminent physician who seeks rejuvenation through gland transplantation and finds his soul cast into a metaphysical realm while his body lies in narcotic stasis. The narrative blends scientific speculation with satire, pitting medical inquiry against legal formalism and probing materialism, religion, and the nature of truth as it gestures toward an ideal social vision. The opening of Nieuw Utopia frames its tale as “abstract truth,” then follows Leyden, compelled to retire by law at seventy, as he undertakes an experimental operation involving transplanted ape glands. The procedure succeeds physically but leaves him in a deep, unending narcose: his body rejuvenates as his soul, expelled by anesthesia, dwells in “Psychia,” unable to return because the implanted animal forces keep the body mechanically alive. Surgeons exhaust their remedies while the legal faculty, caricatured as worshippers of form over spirit, prepares to prosecute him for evading the retirement law. Meanwhile Leyden, lucid in his disembodied state, observes the operation, tests the properties of his “psychic” body, contemplates light and time, and watches patients he once cured, before praying in humility. He then meets the jackal-headed Anubis, who demands a confession; Leyden counters with cool, scientific reasoning about sin, justice, and atavism, and begins recounting his life—just as the excerpt ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240420120021canter 1922 NL Reading ease score: 66.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. nl Dutch fiction -- 20th century Speculative fiction PT Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 386755 2025-07-30T07:46:48.697387 text/html 353776 2025-06-21T17:20:42 text/html 427759 2025-07-30T07:47:03.723366 application/epub+zip 427415 2025-07-30T07:46:52.243414 application/epub+zip 210167 2025-07-30T07:46:50.695415 application/epub+zip 536046 2025-07-30T07:47:09.147314 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1322516 2025-07-30T07:47:02.175369 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 282067 2025-07-30T07:46:47.566455 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 262277 2025-06-21T17:20:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14087 2025-07-30T07:47:09.310292 application/rdf+xml 16914 2025-07-30T07:46:50.807375 image/jpeg 2873 2025-07-30T07:46:50.751392 image/jpeg 275970 2025-07-30T07:46:48.827420 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Digitale Joodse bibliotheek (Digital Jewish Library) (Dutch)