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Many details are given about their customs of eating and

drinking, about their mode of dressing, their employments, their

wars. Campanella looks forward to a new mode of education, which

is to be a study of nature, and not of Aristotle. He would not

have his citizens waste their time in the consideration of what

he calls 'the dead signs of things.' He remarks that he who knows

one science only, does not really know that one any more than the

rest, and insists strongly on the necessity of a variety of

knowledge. More scholars are turned out in the City of the Sun in

one year than by contemporary methods in ten or fifteen. He

evidently believes, like Bacon, that henceforward natural science

will play a great part in education, a hope which seems hardly to

have been realized, either in our own or in any former age; at

any rate the fulfilment of it has been long deferred.