han that whereof they themselves had been the makers.

Moreover, this Council sat divers months after the publishing and during
the promulgation of the model to the people; by which means there is
scarce anything was said or written for or against the said model but
you shall have it with the next impression of this work, by way of
oration addressed to and moderated by the prytans.

By this means the Council of legislators had their necessary solitude
and due aim in their greater work, as being acquainted from time to time
with the pulse of the people, and yet without any manner of interruption
or disturbance.

Wherefore every commonwealth in its place having been opened by due
method--that is, first, by the people; secondly, by the Senate; and,
thirdly, by the magistracy-the Council upon mature debate took such
results or orders out of each, and out of every part of each of them,
as upon opening the same they thought fit; which being put from time to
time in writing by the clerk or secretary, there remained no more in
the conclusion, than putting the orders so taken together, to view and
examine them with a diligent eye, that it might be clearly discovered
whether they did interfere, or could anywise come to interfere or jostle
one with the other. For as such orders jostling or coming to jostle one
another are the certain dissolution of the commonwealth, so, taken upon
the proof of like experience, and neither jostling nor showing which way
they can possibly come to jostle one another, they make a perfect
and (for aught that in human prudence can be foreseen) an immortal
commonwealth.

And such was the art whereby my Lord Archon (taking council of
the Commonwealth of Israel, as of Moses; and of the rest of the
commonwealths, as of Jethro) framed the model of the Commonwealth of
Oceana.

PART III. THE MODEL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF OCEANA

WHEREAS my Lord Archon, being from Moses and Lycurgus the first
legislator that hitherto is found in history to have introduced or
erected an entire commonwealth at once, happened, like them also, to be
more intent upon putting the same into execution or action, than into
writing; by which means the model came to be promulgated or published
with more brevity and less illustration than are necessary for their
understanding who have not been acquainted with the whole proceedings
of the Council of legislators, and of the prytans, where it was asserted
and cleared from all obje