For such reflections appear to the majority far-fetched, and to men of science, commonplace.
(b) Neither to the mind of Plato nor of Aristotle did the doctrine of community of property present at all the same difficulty, or appear to be the same violation of the common Hellenic sentiment, as the community of wives and children.

This paradox he prefaces by another proposal, that the occupations of men and women shall be the same, and that to this end they shall have a common training and education.

Male and female animals have the same pursuits--why not also the two sexes of man?
But have we not here fallen into a contradiction?
for we were saying that different natures should have different pursuits.

How then can men and women have the same?
And is not the proposal inconsistent with our notion of the division of labour ?--These objections are no sooner raised than answered; for, according to Plato, there is no organic difference between men and women, but only the accidental one that men beget and women bear children.

Following the analogy of the other animals, he contends that all natural gifts are scattered about indifferently among both sexes, though there may be a superiority of degree on the part of the men.