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Many other elements enter into a speculation of this kind. But it

is better to make an end of them. For such reflections appear to

the majority far-fetched, and to men of science, commonplace.

(b) Neither to the mind of Plato nor of Aristotle did the

doctrine of community of property present at all the same

difficulty, or appear to be the same violation of the common

Hellenic sentiment, as the community of wives and children. This

paradox he prefaces by another proposal, that the occupations of

men and women shall be the same, and that to this end they shall

have a common training and education. Male and female animals

have the same pursuits-why not also the two sexes of man?