New Atlantis (utopian novel)

...skillful musicians, original: "Qui artem Musices non mutant, sed Musices modum." who do not change the art of music itself, but only the mode or style of the music. They may adjust the tuning with as little noise as possible, and do so very gradually, without leaving the ensemble or snapping the strings by stretching them too tight, which would ruin the harmony.

It is an accepted principle in politics that all law and government should be tailored to the disposition and temperament of the climate and the people. Now, in general, we may observe that all Northern peoples—and particularly the British—have always been more suspicious of their Kings, and less suspicious of their wives, than those of France, Spain, Italy, and so on, who live in the milder southern climates.

But this innate jealousy (which is the most intense, secretive, and therefore most dangerous passion), when provoked by the slightest occasion or sometimes none at all, only adds fuel to its own fire—as happens with marital suspicions—and leads eventually to ruin. I say, therefore, that the Britons (who, more than any other people, watch their King’s actions with the most suspicious eyes of distrust) have gradually coaxed Monarchy down from its high perch. They have so shaped, modeled, and mixed their government that it may now * appear to partake of all three forms Referring to the classical "mixed" government composed of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, that is—

* And it only appears so; for in reality, it is not. Consult Sir Robert Filmer's original: "Sr. R. F." treatise titled The Anarchy of a Limited or Mixed Monarchy. Filmer was a prominent theorist of the "Divine Right of Kings" who argued that a truly "mixed" monarchy was a logical impossibility.