d last of all they elect out of their own number
six censors.

"The high steward is commander-in-chief of the two tribes, whereof he in
person brings up the one at the national muster to the ballot, and his
deputy the other at a distinct pavilion; the six censors chosen by the
court officiating by three in each tribe at the urns; and these tribes
have no other phylarch but this court.

"As for the manner of elections and suffrage, both in Emporium and
Hiera, it may be said, once for all, that they are performed by ballot,
and according to the respective rules already given.

"There be other cities and corporations throughout the territory, whose
policy being much of this kind, would be tedious and not worth the labor
to insert, nor dare I stay. Juvenum manus emicat ardens."

I return, according to the method of the commonwealth, to the remaining
parts of her orbs, which are military and provincial; the military,
except the strategus, and the polemarchs or field-officers, consisting
of the youth only, and the provincial consisting of a mixture both of
elders and of the youth.

To begin with the youth, or the military orbs, they are circles to
which the commonwealth must have a care to keep close. A man is a spirit
raised by the magic of nature; if she does not stand safe, and so that
she may set him to some good and useful work, he spits fire, and blows
up castles; for where there is life, there must be motion or work; and
the work of idleness is mischief, but the work of industry is health.
To set men to this, the commonwealth must begin betimes with them, or
it will be too late; and the means whereby she sets them to it is
education, the plastic art of government. But it is as frequent as sad
in experience (whether through negligence, or, which in the consequence
is all one or worse, over-fondness in the domestic performance of this
duty) that innumerable children come to owe their utter perdition to
their own parents, in each of which the commonwealth loses a citizen.

Wherefore the laws of a government, how wholesome soever in themselves,
are such as, if men by a congruity in their education be not bred to
find a relish in them, they will be sure to loathe and detest. The
education therefore of a man's own children is not wholly to be
committed or trusted to himself. You find in Livy the children of
Brutus, having been bred under monarchy, and used to a court life,
making faces at the Commonwealth of Rome: "A k