the first part of economy or ethics, consisting in the well governing and regulating the affairs of a state for the maintenance of the public safety, order, tranquillity, and morals.

Lord Bacon divides politics into three parts, viz. the preservation of the state, its happiness and flourishing, and its enlargement. Of the first two he informs us, various authors have treated, but the last has never been handled; and he has given a specimen of an essay to supply the want.