02590cam a22003013u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000420011324500170015526400510017230000470022333600260027033700260029633800360032250000310035850801140038952016160050353400680211965300340218765300240222185600430224576346UtSlPG20260610134751.0mcr n260607r20251922utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7anl2iso639-1 4aPT1 aCanter, Bernard Alexander,d1870-195610aNieuw Utopia 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-06-21  aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg  a"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.)  pOriginally published:cAmsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1922  aDutch fiction -- 20th century  aSpeculative fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76346