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He has a charming fancy, like the affinities of Greeks and

barbarians in the Timaeus, that the Utopians learnt the language

of the Greeks with the more readiness because they were

originally of the same race with them. He is penetrated with the

spirit of Plato, and quotes or adapts many thoughts both from the

Republic and from the Timaeus. He prefers public duties to

private, and is somewhat impatient of the importunity of

relations. His citizens have no silver or gold of their own, but

are ready enough to pay them to their mercenaries. There is

nothing of which he is more contemptuous than the love of money.

Gold is used for fetters of criminals, and diamonds and pearls

for children's necklaces (When the ambassadors came arrayed in

gold and peacocks' feathers 'to the eyes of all the Utopians

except very few, which had been in other countries for some

reasonable cause, all that gorgeousness of apparel seemed

shameful and reproachful.