City of the Sun vs New Atlantis

Bacon insist that humans don't need to aspire to fewer desires because the advances of science would make it possible to appease bodily desires by providing material things and that would satisfy human greed. The Solomon's House is a vision of future knowledge in an intellectual setting. Bacon views science advancement as the path to increase control over nature. His utopia provides comfort and conveniences for all people. Campanella's utopia envisions a society that works …

…or trickery is bad magic and not permitted. Bacon and Campanella in their works justified there philosophy by breaking it down in a fictional society in the hopes those critics may understand that their teachings are not heretical. To sum up the utopia few "the end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." (31)