of State, to be proposed by the provosts, and elected by that
council, into the Council of War, consisting of nine knights,
three in every region, not excluded by this election from
remaining members also of the Council of State. The four tribunes
of the people have right of session and suffrage in the Council
of War. Thirdly, by the annual election of four knights out of
the third region of the Senate into the Council of Religion,
consisting of twelve knights, four in every region; of this
council the censors are presidents. Fourthly, by the annual
election of four knights out of the third region of the Senate
into the Council of Trade, consisting of twelve knights, four in
every region. And each region, in every one of these councils
thus constituted, shall weekly and interchangeably elect one
provost whose magistracy shall continue for one week; nor shall
he be re-elected into the same till every knight of that region
in the same council has once borne the same magistracy. And the
provosts being one in every region, three in every council, and
twelve in all, beside their other capacities, shall assemble and
be a council, or rather an Academy apart, to certain ends and
purposes to be hereafter further explained with those of the rest
of the councils."

This order is of no other use than the frame and turn of the
councils, and yet of no small one; for in motion consists life,
and the motion of a commonwealth will never be current unless it
be circular. Men that, like my Lord Epimonus, not enduring the
resemblance of this kind of government to orbs and spheres, fall
on physicking and purging it, do no more than is necessary; for
if it be not in rotation both as to persons and things, it will
be very sick. The people of Rome, as to persons, if they had not