Show UTOPIA AND CHICKENS Sir Thomas More had a strong objection ob-jection to sheep farms declaring that the sheep ate up the people Accordingly According-ly we find that on the Utopian farms tillage was more particularly advanced ad-vanced and that a great number of chickens were hatched not in the natural na-tural way but by means of a gentle equal heat a prophetic vision of the incubator Although husbandry was a science common to all alike the people had each their proper handiwork either clothweaving masonry smith craft or carpenterIng for no others to speak of were known Sir Thomas held the theory that if all persons were made to work In eluding women and priests there would be no need that any should labor more than six hours a day In his sketch of a Utopian day however no fewer than nine hours are alloted to work six in the mornIng and three in the afternoon after-noon T wo hours are allowed at midday for dinner and rest one after supper for play and eight for sleep The remainder re-mainder of the day the people might spend as they pleased though not in riot or sloth but rather in the study of some branch of science lectures being be-ing given early in the morning that all might attend One cannot but feel that the Utopian Jack may have been rather a dull ooyAll the Year Round |