If one is to accept this interpretation, he has to find some way of reading the final statement by More himself, labeling many things in the Utopian scheme as absurd. It would involve a claim that this passage is not to be taken literally, that the author, for purpose of irony, was assuming the role of a reactionary who is incapable of considering any manner of change with an open mind. That is the kind of ploy often adopted by Swift. It is hard to believe that More was wholly serious in his objection to ". . . their living in common, without the use of money, by which all nobility, magnificence, splendor, and majesty, which according to the common opinion, are the true ornaments of a nation, would be taken away . . ." Surely this is meant ironically.
In the last sentence of the book there is a summation which seems to ring true. What it says in essence is that he would like to see many, though not all, of those practices adopted in Europe but that he has little hope of that happening.
