For herein they conceive the felicity of this life to consist." A public system of education enabled the Utopians to avail themselves of their leisure.

While in England half of the population could read no English, every child was well taught in "Nowhere." The physical aspects of society were cared for as attentively as its moral.

The houses of Utopia "in the beginning were very low and like homely cottages or poor shepherd huts made at all adventures of every rude piece of timber that came first to hand, with mud walls and ridged roofs thatched over with straw." The picture was really that of the common English town of More's day, the home of squalor and pestilence.

In Utopia however they had at last come to realize the connexion between public morality and the health which springs from light, air, comfort, and cleanliness.

"The streets were twenty feet broad; the houses backed by spacious gardens, and curiously builded after a gorgeous and gallant sort, with their stories one after another.