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
It would have been quite easy for our first
giantescoes to have obtained an introduction to your race, if they had
emulated the desire of being exhibited as an iotian monstrosity for the
gratification of giga greed and curiosity. But fortunately for our
present hoped-for issue, our system of education, devised for the
development of affectionate confidence, encouraged the past generations
of our race to wait for an opening free from the entailment of
experimental disadvantage. A knowledge of our race for the gratification
of your scientific savants curiosity, would have been as profitless for
good, as their sight-seeing acquaintance with the moon and stars. Our
Manatitlan sages have from the earliest period recommended extreme
caution to prevent the premature introduction of our race to yours. The
favorable indications to be watched for in premonition of a successful
issue were those of extreme folly, heralding a closing cycle; for the
contrast afforded by the result of our happy example would attract
kindly imitation of those inclined to affectionate goodness.
Desideratus, one of our most approved prognosticators, deposed that the
affections of woman afford the best test of a closing giga cycle. When
frivolity and the gossiping comparisons of vanity gain the ascendency
over natural affection, inherent as the birthright of woman, then you
may know that the symbolic serpent’s tail has received its final circle
inclination for union with the mouth. This inclination was foreshadowed
in the eighteenth century, with invention of power looms; which with the
largely increased acceleration of steam, fabricated in excess of the
world’s actual requirements for healthy protection and comely adornment.
With steam as an inductive aid to civilized progression, the Eugenic era
was ushered in, when the frail mortal tenements of women became subject
to empirical vanity, and in rivalry, the standard-bearers for cumbersome
mechanical products, to the utter perversion of healthy elasticity,
comfort, and their special vocation of fostering for immortality
affectionate goodness. This dereliction of giga women from their
manifest duty, has brought in train domestic and dynastic miseries,
while from dreary self conviction their hopeless prospect closes with
the grave. As we have now adventured the only opportunity that has ever
occurred, with a prospect of success, for extending the influence of our
happy experience to your race, we will with our introduction premise a
description of _Our Country_.
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