ts, which are common to all.

G.M. Tell me, I pray you, is there no jealousy among them or
disappointment to that one who has not been elected to a magistracy, or
to any other dignity to which he aspires?

Capt. Certainly not. For no one wants either necessaries or luxuries.
Moreover, the race is managed for the good of the commonwealth, and not
of private individuals, and the magistrates must be obeyed. They deny
what we hold--viz., that it is natural to man to recognize his offspring
and to educate them, and to use his wife and house and children as his
own. For they say that children are bred for the preservation of the
species and not for individual pleasure, as St. Thomas also asserts.
Therefore the breeding of children has reference to the commonwealth,
and not to individuals, except in so far as they are constituents of
the commonwealth. And since individuals for the most part bring forth
children wrongly and educate them wrongly, they consider that they
remove destruction from the State, and therefore for this reason, with
most sacred fear, they commit the education of the children, who, as it
were, are the element of the republic, to the care of magistrates;
for the safety of the community is not that of a few. And thus they
distribute male and female breeders of the best natures according to
philosophical rules. Plato thinks that this distribution ought to be
made by lot, lest some men seeing that they are kept away from the
beautiful women, should rise up with anger and hatred against the
magistrates; and he thinks further that those who do not deserve
cohabitation with the more beautiful women, should be deceived while the
lots are being led out of the city by the magistrates, so that at all
times the women who are suitable should fall to their lot, not those
whom they desire. This shrewdness, however, is not necessary among the
inhabitants of the City of the Sun. For with them deformity is unknown.
When the women are exercised they get a clear complexion, and become
strong of limb, tall and agile, and with them beauty consists in
tallness and strength. Therefore, if any woman dyes her face, so that it
may become beautiful, or uses high-heeled boots so that she may
appear tall, or garments with trains to cover her wooden shoes, she is
condemned to capital punishment. But if the women should even desire
them they have no facility for doing these things. For who indeed would
give them this facility? Furth