The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.Smile, R. Elton
Science
The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.
Smile, R. Elton
Science fiction, American
“Selecting their sites for residence from the advantages of
inaccessibility to giga approach, arable soil, and capabilities for
irrigation, their habitations were quickly constructed, with a cleanly
elegance of adornment that added a new element of wonder to the lazy
imaginations of instinct, in the superstitious belief that they were
visitors under the patronage of divine agency. With these introductory
advantages, which the colonists disclaimed to be other than those within
the reach of all grades of mortality, which their appearance and
vocation were intended to impart, the schools were organized, and
flooded to overflowing with applications for admission. The monthly
visitations of the children’s parents confirmed the belief that mission
was under the special direction of the Godhead.
“The unselfish warmth of their children’s affection opened to their view
a source of realized happiness that truly bespoke the impressions of
immortality, from the continued joy imparted in anticipation of renewal.
The reputation of our advent, from the representative example of our
neophytes, soon extended our influence to remote animalculan
dependencies, so that the extension of our colonistic schools well nigh
drained Manatitla of its effective resources of vitality. In the course
of a few centuries, dating from the Manatitlan colonistic advent in the
countries of the eastern continent, the system of education introduced
had been generally adopted, under our supervision, by the animalculan
races; notwithstanding the instinctive opposition of the chivalric
portion, who followed the ancestral prestige derived from the preferred
imitation of giga military school organizations, designed for the
classical attraction of the senses with tinsel display, and ‘glorious’
din of martial music.
“Meanwhile your Heraclean ancestors had completed their third wall of
circumvallation, and had extended their predatory excursions to the
nether ocean beyond the dominions of the Yunka Machicas (Alta Peruvians)
into those under the rule of Mauna Chusoes (children of the sun), whose
women were esteemed very beautiful, being compared by a Heraclean
chronicler of the period, ‘to all that was lovely in person, with a
complexion that blended upon a surface of white, the reflected rays of
burnished copper and gold.’ This comparison conveys the rich expression
of metallic voluptuousness so much coveted by your Roman ancestry. These
ravishing toys of passion heralded the end. Your immediate ancestors had
obtained an asylum in your present City of the Falls. ‘The end came and
with it our hopes of communication with our colonies beyond the ocean.’
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