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The 'City of the Sun' written by Campanella (1568-1639), a

Dominican friar, several years after the 'New Atlantis' of Bacon,

has many resemblances to the Republic of Plato. The citizens have

wives and children in common; their marriages are of the same

temporary sort, and are arranged by the magistrates from time to

time. They do not, however, adopt his system of lots, but bring

together the best natures, male and female, 'according to

philosophical rules.' The infants until two years of age are

brought up by their mothers in public temples; and since

individuals for the most part educate their children badly, at

the beginning of their third year they are committed to the care

of the State, and are taught at first, not out of books, but from

paintings of all kinds, which are emblazoned on the walls of the

city. The city has six interior circuits of walls, and an outer

wall which is the seventh.