... may be accustomed to ignoring Plato's messages. Sure, Plato was attempting a stab at humor, however, that does necessarily imply all of his ideas with respect to community structure are necessarily bad or wrong. A clear example of this is women's role in the community. Plato, of course, proposes that women, while being inferior to men, shall still participate in the same professions ... it is born resembling its parent but the initiating formative principle whether it acts within itself or within another. The female, on the other hand, is that which receives the seed but is unable to fo...

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... us that with the woman's protection and her constant love of all that she cherishes around her in the garden, her home, she can make everything " bloom" and repel the bad things in life. Ruskin explains that the woman could use her power to make all in her garden right, to flower and blossom with a quote from the Song of Solomon ... 16 Ruskin keeps up the poetic mode, " sought Him in vain, all through the night; sought Him in vain-. He indicates that man is the gardener in life, sowing his seed; the woman is there to cherish and protect those that he has sown by being an " angel keeper"...

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