OF THIS NATIONAL GREAT COUNCIL, he takes
care to extend also his former references to Harrington's principle
of Rotation and other doctrines. Of course, he was well aware that it
was not Harrington himself that had complained of the slightness of
the former references, but only some Royalist wit caricaturing
Harrington together with himself. While disagreeing with Harrington,
he shows his respect for him. The following are specimens of these
particular enlargements:--

_The Rotation Principle_:--"But, if the ambition of such as
think themselves injured that they also partake not of the
Government, and are impatient till they be chosen, cannot brook the
perpetuity of others chosen before them, or if it be feared that
long continuance of power may corrupt sincerest men, the known
expedient is, and by some lately propounded, that annually (or, if
the space be longer, so much perhaps the better) the third part of
Senators may go out, according to the precedence of their election,
and the like number be chosen in their places, to prevent the
settling of too absolute a power if it should be perpetual: and
this they call _Partial Rotation_. But I could wish that this
wheel or partial wheel in State, if it be possible, might be
avoided, as having too much, affinity with the Wheel of Fortune.
For it appears not how this can be done without danger and
mischance of putting out a great number of the best and ablest; in
whose stead new elections may bring in as many raw, unexperienced,
and otherwise affected, to the weakening and much altering for the
worse of public transactions. Neither do I think a Perpetual
Senate, especially chosen and entrusted by the people, much in this
land to be feared, where the well-affected, either in a Standing
Army or in a Settled Militia, have their arms in their own hands.
Safest therefore to me it seems, and of least hazard or
interruption to affairs, that none of the Grand Council be moved,
unless by death or just conviction of some crime; for what can be
expected firm or stedfast from a floating foundation? However, I
forejudge not any probable expedient, any temperament that can be
found in things of this nature, so disputable on either side."

_Contrast of Harrington's Model with Milton's, and a Suggestion
for the mode of Elections_:--"And this annual Rotation of a
Senate to consist of 300, as is lately propounded, requires also
a