rnment is the alternate death of
it.

"This was the Gothic work, whereby the former government (which was not
only a ship, but a gust, too) could never open her sails, but in danger
to overset herself, neither could make any voyage nor lie safe in her
own harbor. The wars of later ages, says Verulamius, seem to be made in
the dark, in respect of the glory and honor which reflected on men from
the wars in ancient times. Their shipping of this sort Was for voyages;
ours dare not launch, nor lies it safe at home. Your Gothic politicians
seem to me rather to have invented some new ammunition or gunpowder, in
their King and Parliament, than government. For what is become of the
princes (a kind of people) in Germany?--blown up. Where are the estates,
or the power of the people in France?--blown up. Where is that of the
people in Arragon, and the rest of the Spanish kingdoms?--blown up. On
the other side, where is the King of Spain's power in Holland?--blown
up. Where is that of the Austrian princes in Switzerland?--blown up.
This perpetual peevishness and jealousy, under the alternate empire of
the prince and of the people, are obnoxious to every spark. Nor shall
any man show a reason that will be holding in prudence, why the people
of Oceana have blown up their King, but that their kings did not
first blow up them. The rest is discourse for ladies. Wherefore your
parliaments are not henceforth to come out of the bag of AEolus, but by
your galaxies, to be the perpetual food of the fire of Vesta.

"Your galaxies, which divide the house into so many regions, are three;
one of which constituting the third region is annually chosen, but
for the term of three years; which causes the house (having at once
blossoms, fruit half ripe, and others dropping off in full maturity)
to resemble an orange tree, such as is at the same time an education or
spring, and a harvest, too; for the people have made a very ill-choice
in the man, who is not easily capable of the perfect knowledge in one
year of the senatorian orders; which knowledge, allowing him for the
first to have been a novice, brings him the second year to practise, and
time enough. For at this rate you must always have 200 knowing men
in the government. And thus the vicissitude of your senators is not
perceivable in the steadiness and perpetuity of your Senate; which, like
that of Venice, being always changing, is forever the same. And though
other politicians have not so well i