s beads, as disturb your
government with whimsies and freaks of mother-wit, or suffer themselves
to be stuttered out of their liberties. There is not any reason why
your grandees, your wise men of this age, that laugh out and openly at
a commonwealth as the most ridiculous thing, do not appear to be, as in
this regard they are, mere idiots, but that the people have not eyes."

There remains no more relating to the Senate and the people than--

The twenty-fourth order, "Whereby it is lawful for the province of
Marpesia to have thirty knights of their own election continually
present in the Senate of Oceana, together with sixty deputies of horse,
and 120 of foot in the prerogative tribe, endued with equal power
(respect had to their quality and number) in the debate and result of
this commonwealth, provided that they observe the course or rotation
of the same by the annual return of ten knights, twenty deputies of the
horse, and forty of the foot. The like in all respects is lawful for
Panopea; and the horse of both the provinces amounting to one troop, and
the foot to one company, one captain and one cornet of the horse shall
be annually chosen by Marpesia, and one captain and one ensign of the
foot shall be annually chosen by Panopea."

The orb of the prerogative being thus complete, is not unnaturally
compared to that of the moon, either in consideration of the light
borrowed from the Senate, as from the sun; or of the ebbs and floods
of the people, which are marked by the negative or affirmative of this
tribe. And the constitution of the Senate and the people being shown,
you have that of the Parliament of Oceana, consisting of the Senate
proposing, and of the people resolving, which amounts to an act of
Parliament. So the Parliament is the heart, which, consisting of two
ventricles, the one greater and replenished with a grosser matter, the
other less and full of a purer, sucks in and spouts forth the vital
blood of Oceana by a perpetual circulation. Wherefore the life of
this government is no more unnatural or obnoxious upon this score to
dissolution than that of a man; nor to giddiness than the world; seeing
the earth, whether it be itself or the heavens that are in rotation, is
so far from being giddy, that it could not subsist without motion. But
why should not this government be much rather capable of duration
and steadiness by motion? Than which God has ordained no other to the
universal commonwealth of manki