What, then, shall we do?
I will tell you: The colony will have to be intrusted to the ten commissioners, of whom you are one, and I will help you and them, which is my reason for inventing this romance.

And I cannot bear that the tale should go wandering about the world without a head,--it will be such an ugly monster.

'Very good.' Yes; and I will be as good as my word, if God be gracious and old age permit.

But let us not forget what a courageously mad creation this our city is.

'What makes you say so ?' Why, surely our courage is shown in imagining that the new colonists will quietly receive our laws?
For no man likes to receive laws when they are first imposed: could we only wait until those who had been educated under them were grown up, and of an age to vote in the public elections, there would be far greater reason to expect permanence in our institutions.