ſhe is neglected among other women, becauſe her huſband is not in the magiſtracv, nor attentive to the making of money; that he is unmanly and remiſs, and ſuch other things as wives are apt to cant over concerning ſuch huſbands. The domeſtics too privately ſay the ſame things to the ſons, ſtimulating them to be more of men than their father, and more attentive to their money. When they go abroad they hear the ſame things, and ſee that thoſe who mind their own affairs are called ſimple, and ſuch as mind not their affairs are commended. The young man comparing the conduct, ſpeeches, and purſuits of his father with thoſe of other men, the one watering the rational part of his ſoul, and the others the concupiſcible and iraſcible, he delivers up the government within himſelf to a middle power, that which is iraſcible and fond of contention, and ſo he becomes a haughty and ambitious man.—We have now the ſecond republic, and the ſecond man.
This ſecond republic will be ſucceeded by oligarchy, founded on men's valuations, in which the rich bear rule, and the poor have no ſhare in the government. The change from the ambitious republic to oligarchy is made by that treaſury which every one has filled with gold: for firſt of all they and their wives find out methods of expence, and to this purpoſe ſtrain and diſobey the laws, one obſerving and rivalling another, the generality become of this kind; and proceeding to greater deſires of making money, the more honourable they account this to be, the more will virtue be thought diſhonourable. Virtue is ſo different from wealth, that they always weigh againſt each other. Whilſt wealth and the wealthy are held in honour in the city, both virtue and the good mull be more diſhonoured, and what is
