"In their desire to escape from the horrors of industrial reality, — to escape from, and at the same time to find a remedy for, them some American thinkers have run forward into the revolutionary future; others back into the pre-industrial past. But in Mexico the pre-industrial past still exists, is contemporary with the industrial depression across the border. ... Since the depression, books on Mexico have been almost as numerous, I should guess, as books on Russia. The Marxes flee Northwards, the Morrises towards the South. ... Morris gave his contemporaries News from Nowhere; his successors give us news from Mexico."