The Iron Republic (Heathen Edition)

<p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Richard Jameson Morgan</strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (1850-1906) was a pioneering American newspaperman Congregationalist minister lecturer and author based in Florida where he edited and published the </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Sub-Peninsula Sun</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>St. Petersburg Times</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (now </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Tampa Bay Times</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>) newspapers. In 1902 </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Florida Magazine</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> serialized his sci-fi novella that recounts the story - presented as fact - of J. Edward Barrington's 1890s sea passage through the Antarctic ice wall where he discovers </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>The Iron Republic</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> an ultramodern and technologically advanced utopian society. Either as fact or fiction it is a rare story and presents an ideal of society and government that will make the average reader long to be a citizen of the newly discovered Iron Republic.</span></p>