Thomas More's Ideal Society

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other things that a community needs to survive? Are those needs going to be put on a hold until farming was finished? Will ill people have to wait for a doctor until he has spare time to help? It seems that farming to provide food for the community is Moore�s main concern. However, if he was really concerned about the people, his society should not have farming as a higher priority than medical care. I feel that instead of having everyone farming, there should be a certain number of doctors, tailors, shoemakers, blacksmiths, etc., that is proportional to the population�s needs.
Furthermore, More also states that "children are brought up to do the same work as their parents, since they tend to have a natural feeling for it." This seems more like a class system, where someone is placed into a certain class or group depending on who their parents are. More tries to avoid the class system by stating that "if a child fancies some other trade, he�s adopted into a family that ...

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