nother Popular Assembly upward of 1000, with an answerable
Rotation. Which, besides that it will be liable to all those
inconveniencies found in the foresaid remedies, cannot but be
troublesome and chargeable, both in their motion and their session,
to the whole land,--unwieldy with their own bulk: unable in so
great a number to mature their consultations as they ought, if any
be allotted to them, and that they meet not from so many parts
remote to sit a whole year leaguer in one place, only now and then
to hold up a forest of fingers, or to convey each man his bean or
ballot into the box, without reason shown or common deliberation;
incontinent of secrets, if any be imparted to them; emulous and
always jarring with the other Senate. The much better way doubtless
will be, in this wavering condition of our affairs, to defer the
changing or circumscribing of our Senate, more than may be done
with ease, till the Commonwealth be thoroughly settled in peace and
safety and they themselves give us the occasion.... Another way
will be to well qualify and refine Elections: not committing all to
the noise and shouting of a rude multitude, but permitting only
those of them who are rightly qualified to nominate as many as they
will; and out of that number others of a better breeding to choose
a less number more judiciously; till, after a third or fourth
sifting and refining of exactest choice, they only be left chosen
who are the due number, and seem by most voices the worthiest....
But, to prevent all mistrust, the People then will have their
several Ordinary Assemblies (which will henceforth quite annihilate
the odious power and name of _Committees_) in the chief towns
of every County,--without the trouble, charge, or time lost, of
summoning and assembling from so far, in so great a number, and so
long residing from their own houses, or removing of their
families,--to do as much at home in their several shires, entire or
subdivided, towards the securing of their liberty, as a numerous
Assembly of them all formed and convened on purpose with the
wariest rotation."

_Glance at some of Harrington's other notions_:--"The way
propounded [Milton's] is plain, easy, and open before us: without
intricacies, without the introducement of new or obsolete forms or
terms, or exotic models,--ideas that would effect nothing, but with
a number of new injunctions to manacle