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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