the wiser man and are taught by him. This, however, rarely
happens. The principals of the sciences, except Metaphysic, who is Hoh
himself, and is, as it were, the architect of all science, having rule
over all, are attached to Wisdom. Hoh is ashamed to be ignorant of any
possible thing. Under Wisdom therefore are Grammar, Logic, Physics,
Medicine, Astrology, Astronomy, Geometry, Cosmography, Music,
Perspective, Arithmetic, Poetry, Rhetoric, Painting, Sculpture. Under
the triumvir Love are Breeding, Agriculture, Education, Medicine,
Clothing, Pasturage, Coining.

G.M. What about their judges?

Capt. This is the point I was just thinking of explaining. Everyone
is judged by the first master of his trade, and thus all the head
artificers are judges. They punish with exile, with flogging, with
blame, with deprivation of the common table, with exclusion from the
church and from the company of women. When there is a case in which
great injury has been done, it is punished with death, and they repay
an eye with an eye, a nose for a nose, a tooth for a tooth, and so
on, according to the law of retaliation. If the offence is wilful the
Council decides. When there is strife and it takes place undesignedly,
the sentence is mitigated; nevertheless, not by the judge but by the
triumvirate, from whom even it may be referred to Hoh, not on account of
justice but of mercy, for Hoh is able to pardon. They have no prisons,
except one tower for shutting up rebellious enemies, and there is no
written statement of a case, which we commonly call a lawsuit. But the
accusation and witnesses are produced in the presence of the judge
and Power; the accused person makes his defence, and he is immediately
acquitted or condemned by the judge; and if he appeals to the
triumvirate, on the following day he is acquitted or condemned. On the
third day he is dismissed through the mercy and clemency of Hoh, or
receives the inviolable rigor of his sentence. An accused person is
reconciled to his accuser and to his witnesses, as it were, with the
medicine of his complaint, that is, with embracing and kissing.

No one is killed or stoned unless by the hands of the people, the
accuser and the witnesses beginning first. For they have no executioners
and lictors, lest the State should sink into ruin. The choice of death
is given to the rest of the people, who enclose the lifeless remains in
little bags and burn them by the application of fire, while exhor