This excerpt helps support the claim that the best society consists of satisfied, hardworking people who live in equality.
Even the Syphogrants, though excused by the law, yet do not excuse themselves, but work, that by their examples they may excite the industry of the rest of the people; the like exemption is allowed to those who, being recommended to the people by the priests, are, by the secret suffrages of the Syphogrants, privileged from labour, that they may apply themselves wholly to study; and if any of these fall short of those hopes that they seemed at first to give, they are obliged to return to work; and sometimes a mechanic that so employs his leisure hours as to make a considerable advancement in learning is eased from being a tradesman and ranked among their learned men.
–Utopia,
Sir Thomas More
How does More use ethos in this excerpt?
He implies that people with good character should not have to work.
He implies that working is only important for people who do not have good character.
He uses the good character of the Syphogrants to show that working is the right thing to do.
He relies on his own good character when describing how the Syphogrants behave.