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
In the managing this Plot, one of their Authors was specially
employ'd, and that all that was really true of the Crolian Dissenters
might be ridicul'd, his Work was to draw monstrous Pictures of them,
which no Body could believe; this took immediately, for now People
began to look at their Shooes to see if they were not Cloven Footed
as they went a long Streets; and at last finding they were really
shap'd like the rest of the Lunar Inhabitants, they went back to the
Author, who was a Learned Member of a certain Seminary, or
Brother-hood of the Solunarian Clergy, and enquir'd if he were not
Mad, Distracted and Raving, or Moon-blind, and in want of the
thinking Engine; but finding all things right there, and that he was
in his Senses, especially in a Morning when he was a little free
from, &c. that he was a Good, Honest, Jolly, Solunarian Priest, and
no room could be found for an Objection there. Upon all these
Searches it presently appear'd, and all Men concluded it was a meer
Fanatick Crolian Plot; that this High Party of all were but
Pretenders, and meer Traytors to the True High Solunarian Church-Men,
that wearing the same Cloth had herded among them in Disguise, only
to wheedle them into such wild Extravagancies as must of necessity
confuse their Councils, expose their Persons, and ruin their Cause.
---- According to the like Practice, put upon their Abrograzian
Prince, and of which I have spoken before.
And since I am upon the detection of this most refin'd Practice, I
crave leave to descend to some particular Instances, which will the
better evince the Truth of this Matter, and make it appear that
either this was really a Crolian Plot, or else all these People were
perfectly Distracted; and as their Wits in that Lunar World, are much
higher strain'd than ours, so their Lunacy, where it happens, must
according to the Rules of Mathematical Nature, bear an extream Equal
in proportion.
This College Fury of a Man was the first on whom this useful
Discovery was made, and having writ several Learned Tracts wherein he
invited the People to Murther and Destroy all the Crolians, Branded
all the Solunarian Patriarchs, Clergy and Gentry that would not come
into his Proposal, with the name of Cowards, Traytors and Betrayers
of Lunar Religion; having beat the Concionazimir at a great Assembly
of the Cadirs, or Judges, and told them all the Crolians were Devils,
and they were all Perjur'd that did not use them as such: He carry'd
on Matters so dexterously, and with such surprizing Success, that he
fill'd even the Solunarians themselves with Horror at his
Proposals.----- And as I happen'd to be in one of their publick Halls
where all such Writings as are new are laid a certain time to be read
by every Comer, I saw a little knot of Men round a Table, where one
was reading this Book.
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