l in Hiera provided that the boys should have a summer seat.
You should have as much care of these magistrates. But there is such a
selling, such a Jewish humor in our republicans, that I cannot tell
what to say to it; only this, any man that knows what belongs to a
commonwealth, or how diligent every nation in that case has been to
preserve her ornaments, and shall see the waste lately made (the woods
adjoining to this city, which served for the delight and health of it,
being cut down to be sold for threepence), will you tell that they who
did such things would never have made a commonwealth. The like may be
said of the ruin or damage done upon our cathedrals, ornaments in which
this nation excels all others. Nor shall this ever be excused upon the
score of religion; for though it be true that God dwells not in houses
made with hands, yet you cannot hold your assemblies but in such houses,
and these are of the best that have been made with hands. Nor is it well
argued that they are pompous, and therefore profane, or less proper for
divine service, seeing the Christians in the primitive Church chose
to meet with one accord in the Temple, so far were they from any
inclination to pull it down."

The orders of this commonwealth, so far, or near so far as they concern
the elders, together with the several speeches at the institution, which
may serve for the better understanding of them as so many commentaries,
being shown, I should now come from the elders to the youth, or from the
civil constitution of this government to the military, but that I judge
this the fittest place whereinto, by the way, to insert the government
of the city though for the present but perfunctorily.

"'The metropolis or capital city of Oceana is commonly called Emporium,
though it consists of two cities distinct, as well in name as in
government, whereof the other is called Hiera, for which cause I shall
treat of each apart, beginning with Emporium.

"Emporium, with the liberties, is under a twofold division, the one
regarding the national, and the other the urban or city government. It
is divided, in regard of the national government, into three tribes, and
in respect of the urban into twenty six, which for distinction's sake
are called wards, being contained under three tribes but unequally;
wherefore the first tribe containing ten wards is called scazon, the
second containing eight metoche, and the third containing as many
telicouta, the bear