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accept that you're here to live in labor and pain
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and the most part of your time in the sweat of your face.
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Okay. Well, all of this is a perfectly conventional
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account of the structures and purposes
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of the social order in the sixteenth century.
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It's partly descriptive of the major component groups of society.
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It's partly obviously prescriptive.
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It's prescribing how they should live,
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and in doing so it embodies the central ideals
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of the social morality of the time as it was conceived
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by people like Dudley: harmony, duty, order.
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Now clearly this ideal was communitarian.