o thick, whence their courage answered not their hardiness,
except in the nobility, who govern much after the manner of Poland, but
that the King was not elective till the people received their liberty;
the yoke of the nobility being broken by the commonwealth of Oceana,
which in grateful return is thereby provided with an inexhaustible
magazine of auxiliaries.

Panopea, the soft mother of a slothful and pusillanimous people, is a
neighbor island, anciently subjected by the arms of Oceana; since almost
depopulated for shaking the yoke, and at length replanted with a new
race. But, through what virtues of the soil or vice of the air soever it
be, they come still to degenerate. Wherefore seeing it is neither likely
to yield men fit for arms, nor necessary it should, it had been the
interest of Oceana so to have disposed of this province, being both rich
in the nature of the soil, and full of commodious ports for trade, that
it might have been ordered for the best in relation to her purse, which
in my opinion, if it had been thought upon in time, might have been best
done by planting it with Jews, allowing them their own rites and laws;
for that would have brought them suddenly from all parts of the world,
and in sufficient numbers. And though the Jews be now altogether for
merchandise, yet in the land of Canaan (except since their exile
from whence they have not been landlords) they were altogether for
agriculture; and there is no cause why a man should doubt, but having a
fruitful country and excellent ports, too, they would be good at both.
Panopea, well peopled, would be worth a matter of L4,000,000 dry-rents;
that is, besides the advantage of the agriculture and trade, which,
with a nation of that industry, come at least to as much more. Wherefore
Panopea, being farmed out to the Jews and their heirs forever, for the
pay of a provincial army to protect them during the term of seven years,
and for L2,000,000 annual revenue from that time forward, besides the
customs, which would pay the provincial army, would have been a bargain
of such advantage, both to them and this commonwealth, as is not to be
found otherwise by either. To receive the Jews after any other manner
into a commonwealth were to maim it; for they of all nations never
incorporate, but taking up the room of a limb, are of no use office to
the body, while they suck the nourishment which would sustain a natural
and useful member.

If Panopea had been so di