The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the MoonDefoe, Daniel
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The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon
Defoe, Daniel
Fantasy fiction; Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction; Moon -- Fiction; Political fiction; Satire
And tho' it may not be allow'd to be so here, yet I found it more
constantly so there, Effects were true to their Causes, and confusion
of Councils never fail'd in the Moon to be follow'd by distracted and
destructive Consequences.
This appear'd more eminently in the Dispute between these two Lunar
Nations we are speaking of; never were People in the Moon, whatever
they might be in other Places, so divided in their Opinions about a
matter of such Consequence. Some were for declaring War immediately
upon the Northern Men, tho' they could show no Reason at all why,
only because they would not do as they would have 'em; a parcel of
poor Scoundrel, Scabby Rogues, they ought to be made submit, what!
won't they declare the same King as we do! hang them Rogues! a pack
of Crolian Prestarian Devils, we must make them do it, down with them
the shortest Way, declare War immediately, and down with them.------
Nay some were for falling on them directly, without the formality of
declaring War.
Others, more afraid than hurt, cry'd out Invasions, Depredation, Fire
and Sword, the Northern Men would be upon them immediately, and
propos'd to Fortify their Frontiers, and file off their Forces to the
Borders; nay, so apprehensive did those Men of Prudence pretend to
be, that they order'd Towns to be Fortify'd 100 Mile off of the
Place, when all this while the poor Northern Men did nothing but tell
them, that unless they would come to Terms, they would not have the
same King as they, and they took some Measures to let them see they
did not purpose to be forc'd to it.
Another sort of Wiser Men than these, propos'd to Unite with them,
hear their Reasons, and do them Right. These indeed were the only Men
that were in the right Method of concluding this unhappy Broil, and
for that Reason, were the most unlikely to succeed.
But the Wildest Notion of all, was, when some of the Grandees made a
grave Address to the Queen of the Country, to desire the Northern Men
to settle Matters first, and to tell them, that when that was done,
they should see what these would do for them. This was a home Stroke,
if it had but hit, and the Misfortune only lay in this, That the
Northern Men were not Fools enough; the clearness of the Air in those
cold Climates generally clearing the Head so early, that those People
see much farther into a Mill-stone than any Blind Man in all the
Southern Nations of the Moon.
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