nd next, as the outcome
of this bond, for human beings at any rate, a provision is made by which
they may have sons and daughters to support them in old age.

[18] Reading {oti}, or if with Br. {eti... auto}, "with the further
intent it should prove of maximum advantage to itself."

[19] Cf. (Aristot.) "Oecon." i. 3.

"And again, the way of life of human beings, not being maintained
like that of cattle [20] in the open air, obviously demands roofed
homesteads. But if these same human beings are to have anything to bring
in under cover, some one to carry out these labours of the field under
high heaven [21] must be found them, since such operations as the
breaking up of fallow with the plough, the sowing of seed, the planting
of trees, the pasturing and herding of flocks, are one and all open-air
employments on which the supply of products necessary to life depends.

[20] "And the beast of the field."

[21] "Sub dis," "in the open air."

"As soon as these products of the field are safely housed and under
cover, new needs arise. There must be some one to guard the store and
some one to perform such necessary operations as imply the need of
shelter. [22] Shelter, for instance, is needed for the rearing of infant
children; shelter is needed for the various processes of converting the
fruits of earth into food, and in like manner for the fabrication of
clothing out of wool.

[22] Or, "works which call for shelter."

"But whereas both of these, the indoor and the outdoor occupations
alike, demand new toil and new attention, to meet the case," I added,
"God made provision [23] from the first by shaping, as it seems to me,
the woman's nature for indoor and the man's for outdoor occupations.
Man's body and soul He furnished with a greater capacity for enduring
heat and cold, wayfaring and military marches; or, to repeat, He laid
upon his shoulders the outdoor works.

[23] "Straightway from the moment of birth provided." Cf. (Aristot.)
"Oecon." i. 3, a work based upon or at any rate following the
lines of Xenophon's treatise.

"While in creating the body of woman with less capacity for these
things," I continued, "God would seem to have imposed on her the indoor
works; and knowing that He had implanted in the woman and imposed upon
her the nurture of new-born babies, He endowed her with a larger share
of affection for the new-born child than He bestowed upon man. [24] And
since He imposed on woman th