debate took such results or orders out of each, and out of every
part of each of them, as upon opening the same they thought fit;
which being put from time to time in writing by the clerk or
secretary, there remained no more in the conclusion, than putting
the orders so taken together, to view and examine them with a
diligent eye, that it might be clearly discovered whether they
did interfere, or could anywise come to interfere or jostle one
with the other. For as such orders jostling or coming to jostle
one another are the certain dissolution of the commonwealth, so,
taken upon the proof of like experience, and neither jostling nor
showing which way they can possibly come to jostle one another,
they make a perfect and (for aught that in human prudence can be
foreseen) an immortal commonwealth.

And such was the art whereby my Lord Archon (taking council
of the Commonwealth of Israel, as of Moses; and of the rest of
the commonwealths, as of Jethro) framed the model of the
Commonwealth of Oceana.

PART III

THE MODEL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF OCEANA

WHEREAS my Lord Archon, being from Moses and Lycurgus the first
legislator that hitherto is found in history to have introduced
or erected an entire commonwealth at once, happened, like them
also, to be more intent upon putting the same into execution or
action, than into writing; by which means the model came to be
promulgated or published with more brevity and less illustration
than are necessary for their understanding who have not been