Agriculture is that which is so universally understood among them that no person, either man or woman, is ignorant of it; they are instructed in it from their childhood, partly by what they learn at school, and partly by practice, they being led out often into the fields about the town, where they not only see others at work but are likewise exercised in it themselves. Besides agriculture, which is so common to them all, every man has some peculiar trade to which he applies himself; such as the manufacture of wool or flax, masonry, smith’s work, or carpenter’s work; for there is no sort of trade that is in great esteem among them.
–Utopia,
Sir Thomas More
Read the excerpt. What is the claim?
Working in fields is more important than working a trade.
Working in trades is respectable, but working in fields is important.
Working in fields and trades should not be the focus of society.
Working in fields and trades is important and respectable.