bring in under cover, some one to carry out these labours of the field
under high heaven[21] must be found them, since such operations as the
breaking up of fallow with the plough, the sowing of seed, the
planting of trees, the pasturing and herding of flocks, are one and
all open-air employments on which the supply of products necessary to
life depends.

[20] "And the beast of the field."

[21] "Sub dis," "in the open air."

"As soon as these products of the field are safely housed and under
cover, new needs arise. There must be some one to guard the store and
some one to perform such necessary operations as imply the need of
shelter.[22] Shelter, for instance, is needed for the rearing of
infant children; shelter is needed for the various processes of
converting the fruits of earth into food, and in like manner for the
fabrication of clothing out of wool.

[22] Or, "works which call for shelter."

"But whereas both of these, the indoor and the outdoor occupations
alike, demand new toil and new attention, to meet the case," I added,
"God made provision[23] from the first by shaping, as it seems to me,
the woman's nature for indoor and the man's for outdoor occupations.
Man's body and soul He furnished with a greater capacity for enduring
heat and cold, wayfaring and military marches; or, to repeat, He laid
upon his shoulders the outdoor works.

[23] "Straightway from the moment of birth provided." Cf. (Aristot.)