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Ch40- he then says once women is done having children she can help men with their labour, it would be a pity if she didn’t have children if she could’ve have them.

Ch40-‘a woman in addition to the possibility of serving men by all the means open to men i by the construction of her body called and inevitably attracted to serve others by that which is alone is accepted from the domain of the service of men’. By this he says women can choose which duties to perform, but later says women must have children and have less duties at which they can’t fail. Contradicts himself?

Ch40- men should fulfil 4 types of labour, while women to continue the race by producing children, since only they can do it. He says it’s dictated by nature, not by men. Since men have more variety of duties they can fail at some and still be considered successful, while women as she has smaller number of duties if she fails she falls lower than men. Such is the substance of the matter.

Ch40-women who don’t produce children are poisoned by men who gave up the law of labour. Women who produce children and take care of them, follow such law and make better society, able to save humankind. Spend time with them, educate them, teach moral principles to them, clean and feed them. Make her children her purpose, feel this is what you’re called to do by sacrificing yourself, even when no one appreciates.

Ch39- people must see those truths he says, become conscious of it and make a change, so it’s shameful to not do things for themselves, instead of thinking it’s shameful to not have a lot of money and servants. Man mist take from others only what’s necessary for his life and submit to labour and dangers of life.

Ch38-all people need to perform all 4 types of labour, making different useful things, eg buildings, science, shoes, society, so we understand other people more and we may like doing what we would like to do, like writing. If we only write we may grow tired of it, lose inspiration and be unable to produce good quality writing. Only if you do it better than anyone and others ask you to do it, you can focus on it.

Ch38- ‘to eat and not to work is the most dangerous state’. Find work and it’ll be pleasant and satisfy us. 4 stages of day before breakfast, from breakfast to dinner, from dinner to evening meal, from evening meal to night. Labour if muscles, fingers and skills, intellect and imagination, activity with other men. Those 4 produce different things used by others.

Ch38-he says people who aren’t producing things for benefit of society should be honest with themselves and admit they are useless. He says we should ask ‘How can I a useless man fix a mistake of wasting my best years studying science useless for body and learn to serve men’. We should earn our living, clothing, feeding, building etc while serving others, and buy less, making our life similar to workmen’s.

Ch37- he says people creating art or science don’t work for workmen, again, repeating this thought so many times over the past few chapters it is boring and doesn’t add more arguments for it, other than they are greedy and making things for money and the rich.

Ch36- he says how scientists expect people to forget old teachings of people like Buddha or Jesus and start from the beginning, studying molecules and things you can’t see. He saw these old teachings as true science and everything going away from it isn’t art or science.