Ideal Commonwealths Plutarchs Lycurgus Mores Utopia Bacons New Atlantis Ca
Ideal Commonwealths Plutarchs Lycurgus Mores Utopia Bacons New Atlantis Ca
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But when no public undertaking is to be performed, the hours of work- ing are lessened. The magistrates never engage the people in unnecessary labour, since the chief end of the constitution is to regulate labour by the necessities of the public, and to allow all the people as much time as is necessary for the im- provement of their minds, in which they think the happiness of life consists. OF THEIR TRAFFIC. BUT it is now time to explain to you the mutual inter- course of this people, their com...merce, and the rules by which all things are distributed among them. As their cities are composed of families, so their families are made up of those that are nearly related to one another. Their women, when they grow up, are married out ; but all 102 UTOPIA. the males, both children and grandchildren, live still in the same house, in great obedience to their common parent, unless age has weakened his understanding ; and in that case, he that is next to him in age comes in his room. But lest any city should become either too great, or by any accident be dispeopled, provision is made that none of their cities may contain above six thousand families, besides those of the country round it.
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