He arrives at it in the course of a demonstration in farther detail of certain superiorities of Commonwealth government over Regal.

"The whole freedom of man," he says, "consists either in Spiritual or Civil Liberty." Glancing first at Spiritual Liberty, he contents himself with a general statement of the principle of Liberty of Conscience, as implying the absolute and unimpeded right of every individual Christian to interpret the Scripture for himself and give utterance and effect to his conclusions; and, though he does not conceal that in his own opinion such Liberty of Conscience cannot be complete without Church-disestablishment, he does not press that for the present.

Enough that Liberty of Conscience, according to any endurable definition of it, is more safe in a Republic than in a Kingdom,--which, by various instances from history, he maintains to be a fact.

Then, coming to Civil Liberty, he propounds his reserved suggestion, or the second real novelty of his pamphlet, thus:-- "The other part of our freedom consists in the civil rights and advancements of every person according to his merit: the enjoyment of _those_ never more certain, and the access to _these_ never more open, than in a free Commonwealth.

And _both_ in my opinion may be best and soonest obtained if every county in the land were made a _Little Commonwealth_, and their chief town a _City_ if it be not so called already; where the nobility and chief gentry may build houses or palaces befitting their quality, may bear part in the [district or city] government, make their own judicial laws, and execute them by their own elected judicatures, without appeal, in all things of Civil Government between man and man.