3. How proper mutual Enquiry is to mutual Satisfaction?

From the Observation of these Glasses, we also drew some Puns,

Crotchets and Conclusions.

1st, That the whole World has a Blind-side, a Dark-side, and a

Bright-side, and consequently so has every Body in it.

2dly, That the Dark-side of Affairs to Day, may be the Bright-side to

Morrow; from whence abundance of useful Morals were also raised; such

as,

1. No Man's Fate is so dark, but when the Sun shines upon it, it will

return its Rays, and shine for it self.

2. All things turn like the Moon, up to Day, down to Morrow, Full and

Change, Flux and Reflux.

3. Humane Understanding is like the Moon at the First Quarter, half

dark.

3dly, The Changing-sides ought not to be thought so strange, or

so much Condemn'd by Mankind, having its Original from the Lunar

Influence, and govern'd by the Powerful Operation of Heavenly Motion.

4thly, If there be any such thing as Destiny in the World, I know

nothing Man is so predestinated to, as to be eternally turning round;

and but that I purpose to entertain the Reader with at least a whole

Chapter or Section of the Philosophy of Humane Motion, Spherically

and Hypocritically Examin'd and Calculated, I should inlarge upon

that Thought in this place.

Having thus jumpt in our Opinions, and perfectly satisfied our selves

with Demonstration, That these Worlds were Sisters, both in Form,

Function, and all their Capacities; in short, a pair of Moons, and a

pair of Worlds, equally Magnetical, Sympathetical, and Influential,

we set up our rest as to that Affair, and went forward.

I desir'd no better Acquaintance in my new Travels, than this new

Sociate; never was there such a Couple of People met; he was the Man

in the Moon to me, and I the Man in the Moon to him; he wrote down

all I said, and made a Book of it, and call'd it, News from the World

in the Moon; and all the Town is like to see my Minutes under the

same Title; nay, and I have been told, he published some such bold

Truths there, from the Allegorical Relations he had of me from our

World: That he was call'd before the Publick Authority, who could not

bear the just Reflections of his damn'd Satyrical way of Writing;

and there they punisht the Poor Man, put him in Prison, ruin'd his

Family; and not only Fin'd him Ultra tenementum, but expos'd him in

the high Places of their Capital City, for the Mob to laugh at him

for a Fool: This is a Punishment not unlike our Pillory, and was

appointed for mean Criminals, Fellows that Cheat and Couzen People,

Forge Writings, Forswear themselves, and the like; and the People,

that it was expected would have treated this Man very ill, on the

contrary Pitied him, wisht those that set him there placed in his

room, and exprest their Affections, by loud Shouts and Acclamations,

when he was taken down.

But as this happen'd before my first Visit to that World, when I came

there all was over with him, his particular Enemies were disgrac'd

and turn'd out, and the Man was not at all the worse receiv'd by his

Country-folks than he was before; and so much for the Man in the Moon.

After we had settled the Debate between us, about the Nature and

Quality, I desir'd him to show me some Plan or Draft of this new

World of his; upon which, he brought me out a pair of very beautiful

Globes, and there I had an immediate Geographical Description of the

Place.

I found it less by Degrees than Our Terrestial Globe, but more Land

and less Water; and as I was particularly concern'd to see something

in or near the same Climate with Our selves, I observ'd a large

extended Country to the North, about the Latitude of 50 to 56

Northern Distance; and enquiring of that Country, he told me it was

one of the best Countries in all their World: That it was his Native

Climate, and he was just a going to it, and would take me with him.

He told me in General, the Country was Good, Wholsome, Fruitful,

rarely Scituate for Trade, extraordinarily Accommodated with

Harbours, Rivers and Bays for Shipping; full of Inhabitants; for it

had been Peopled from all Parts, and had in it some of the Blood of

all the Nations in the Moon.

He told me, as the Inhabitants were the most Numerous, so they

were the strangest People that liv'd; both their Natures, Tempers,

Qualities, Actions, and way of Living, was made up of innumerable

Contradictions: That they were the Wisest Fools, and the Foolishest

Wise Men in the World; the Weakest Strongest, Richest Poorest, most

Generous Covetous, Bold Cowardly, False Faithful, Sober Dissolute,

Surly Civil, Slothful Diligent, Peaceable Quarrelling, Loyal

Seditious Nation that ever was known.

Besides my Observations which I made my self, and which could only

furnish me with what was present, and which I shall take time to

inform my Reader with as much Care and Conciseness as possible; I was

beholding to this Old Lunarian, for every thing that was Historical

or Particular.

And First, He inform'd me, That in this new Country they had very

seldom any Clouds at all, and consequently no extraordinary Storms,

but a constant Serenity, moderate Breezes cooled the Air, and

constant Evening Exhalations kept the Earth moist and fruitful; and

as the Winds they had were various and strong enough to assist their

Navigation, so they were without the Terrors, Dangers, Ship-wrecks

and Destructions, which he knew we were troubled with in this our

Lunar World, as he call'd it.

The first just Observation I made of this was, That I suppos'd from

hence the wonderful Clearness of the Air, and the Advantage of so

vast Optick Capacities they enjoy'd, was obtained: Alas! says the Old

Fellow, You see nothing to what some of our Great Eyes see in some

Parts of this World, nor do you see any thing compar'd to what you

may see by the help of some new Invented Glasses, of which I may in

time let you see the Experiment; and perhaps you may find this to be

the reason why we do not so abound in Books as in your Lunar World;

and that except it be some extraordinary Translations out of your

Country, you will find but little in our Libraries, worth giving you

a great deal of Trouble.

We immediately quitted the Philosophical Discourse of Winds, and I

began to be mighty Inquisitive after these Glasses and Translations,

and

1st, I understood here was a strange sort of Glass that did not so

much bring to the Eye, as by I know not what wonderful Operation

carried out the Eye to the Object, and quite varies from all our

Doctrine of Opticks, by forming several strange Phanomena in Sight,

which we are utterly unacquainted with; nor could Vision,

Rarification, or any of our School-mens fine Terms, stand me in any

stead in this case; but here was such Additions of piercing Organs,

Particles of Transparence, Emission, Transmission, Mediums,

Contraction of Rays, and a Thousand Applications of things prepar'd

for the wondrous Operation, that you may be sure are requisite for

the bringing to pass something yet unheard of on this side the Moon.

First we were inform'd, by the help of these Glasses, strange things,

which pass in our World for Non-Entities, is to be seen, and very

perceptible; for Example:

State Polity, in all its Meanders, Shifts, Turns, Tricks, and

Contraries, are so exactly Delineated and Describ'd, That they are in

hopes in time to draw a pair of Globes out, to bring all those things

to a certainty.

Not but that it made some Puzzle, even among these Clear-sighted

Nations, to determine what Figure the Plans and Drafts of this

undiscover'd World of Mysteries ought to be describ'd in: Some were

of Opinion, it ought, to be an Irregular Centagon, a Figure with an

Hundred Cones or Angles: Since the Unaccountables of this

State-Science, are hid in a Million of undiscover'd Corners; as the

Craft, Subtilty and Hypocrisy of Knaves and Courtiers have concealed

them, never to be found out, but by this wonderful D---l-scope, which

seem'd to threaten a perfect Discovery of all those Nudities, which

have lain hid in the Embrio, and false Conceptions of Abortive

Policy, ever since the Foundation of the World.

Some were of Opinion, this Plan ought to be Circular, and in a

Globular Form, since it was on all sides alike, full of dark Spots,

untrod Mazes, waking Mischiefs, and sleeping Mysteries; and being

delineated like the Globes display'd, would discover all the Lines of

Wickedness to the Eye at one view: Besides, they fancied some sort of

Analogy in the Rotundity of the Figure, with the continued Circular

Motion of all Court-Policies, in the stated Round of Universal

Knavery.

Others would have had it Hyrogliphical as by a Hand in Hand, the Form

representing the Affinity between State Policy here, and State Policy

in the Infernal Regions, with some unkind Similies between the

Oeconomy of Satan's Kingdom, and those of most of the Temporal Powers

on Earth; but this was thought too unkind. At last it was determin'd,

That neither of these Schemes were capable of the vast Description;

and that, therefore, the Drafts must be made single, tho' not

dividing the Governments, yet dividing the Arts of Governing into

proper distinct Schemes, viz.

1. A particular Plan of Publick Faith; and here we had the Experiment

immediately made: The Representation is quallified for the Meridian

of any Country, as well in our World as theirs; and turning it

to'ards our own World, there I saw plainly an Exchequer shut up, and

20000 Mourning Families selling their Coaches, Horses, Whores,

Equipages, &c. for Bread, the Government standing by laughing, and

looking on: Hard by I saw the Chamber of a great City shut up, and

Forty Thousand Orphans turn'd adrift in the World; some had no

Cloaths, some no Shoes, some no Money; and still the City Magistrates

calling upon other Orphans, to pay their money in. These things put

me in mind of the Prophet Ezekiel, and methoughts I heard the same

Voice that spoke to him, calling me, and telling me, Come hither, and

I'll show thee greater Abominations than these: So looking still on

that vast Map, by the help of these Magnifying Glasses, I saw huge

Fleets hir'd for Transport-Service, but never paid; vast Taxes

Anticipated, that were never Collected; others Collected and

Appropriated, but Misapplied: Millions of Talleys struck to be

Discounted, and the Poor paying 40 per Cent, to receive their Money.

I saw huge Quantities of Money drawn in, and little or none issued

out; vast Prizes taken from the Enemy, and then taken away again at

home by Friends; Ships sav'd on the Sea, and sunk in the Prize

Offices; Merchants escaping from Enemies at Sea, and be Pirated by

Sham Embargoes, Counterfeit Claims, Confiscations, &c a-shoar: There

we saw Turkey-Fleets taken into Convoys, and Guarded to the very

Mouth of the Enemy, and then abandon'd for their better Security:

Here we saw Mons. Pouchartrain shutting up the Town-house of Paris,

and plundring the Bank of Lyons.

2. Here we law the State of the War among Nations; Here was the

French giving Sham-thanks for Victories they never got, and some body

else adressing and congratulating the sublime Glory of running away:

Here was Te Deum for Sham-Victories by Land; and there was

Thanksgiving for Ditto by Sea: Here we might see two Armies fight,

both run away, and both come and thank GOD for nothing: Here we saw a

Plan of a late War like that in Ireland; there was all the Officers

cursing a Dutch General, because the damn'd Rogue would fight, and

spoil a good War, that with decent Management and good Husbandry,

might have been eek't out this Twenty Years; there was whole Armies

hunting two Cows to one Irishman, and driving of black Cattle

declar'd the Noble End of the the War: Here we saw a Country full of

Stone Walls and strong Towns, where every Campaign, the Trade of War

was carried on by the Soldiers, with the same Intriguing as it was

carried on in the Council Chambers; there was Millions of

Contributions raised, and vast Sums Collected, but no Taxes lessen'd;

whole Plate Fleets surpriz'd, but no Treasure found; vaft Sums lost

by Enemies, and yet never found by Friends, Ships loaded with

Volatile Silver, that came away full, and gat home empty; whole

Voyages made to beat No body, and plunder Every body; two Millions

robb'd from the honest Merchants, and not a Groat sav'd for the

honest Subjects: There we saw Captains Lifting Men with the

Governments Money, and letting them go again for their own; Ships

fitted out at the Rates of Two Millions a Year, to fight but once in

Three Years, and then run away for want of Powder and Shot.

There we saw Partition Treaties damned, and the whole given away,

Confederations without Allies, Allies without Quota's, Princes

without Armies, Armies without Men, and Men without Money, Crowns

without Kings, Kings without Subjects, more Kings than Countries, and

more Countries than were worth fighting for.

Here we could see the King of France upbraiding his Neighbours with

dishonourably assisting his Rebels, though the Mischief was, they did

it not neither; and in the same Breath, assisting the Hungarian

Rebels against the Emperor; M. Ld N. refusing so dishonourable an

Action, as to aid the Rebellious Camisars, but Leaguing with the

Admirant de Castile, to Invade the Dominions of his Master to whom he

swore Allegiance: Here we saw Protestants fight against Protestants,

to help Papists, Papists against Papists to help Protestants,

Protestants call in Turks, to keep Faith against Christians that

break it: Here we could see Swedes fighting for Revenge, and call it

Religion; Cardinals deposing their Catholick Prince, to introduce the

Tyranny of a Lutheran and call it Liberty; Armies Electing Kings, and

call it Free Choice; French conquering Savoy, to secure the Liberty

of Italy.

3. The Map of State Policy contains abundance of Civil Transactions,

no where to be discover'd but in this wonderful Country, and by this

prodigious Invention: As first, it shows an Eminent Prelate running

in every body's Debt to relieve the Poor, and bring to God Robbery

for Burnt-Offering: It opens a Door to the Fate of Nations; and there

we might see the Duke of S--y bought three times, and his subjects

sold every time; Portugal bought twice, and neither time worth the

Earnest; Spain bought once, but loth to go with the Bidder; Venice

willing to be Bought, if there had been any Buyers; Bavaria Bought,

and run away with the Money; the Emperor Bought and Sold, but Bilkt

the Chapman; the French buying Kingdoms he can't keep, the Dutch keep

Kingdoms they never Bought; and the English paying their Money

without Purchase.

In Matters of Civil Concerns, here was to be seen Religion with no

out-side, and much Out-side with no Religion, much Strife about

Peace, and no Peace in the Design: Here was Plunder without Violence,

Violence without Persecution, Conscience without Good Works, and Good

Works without Charity; Parties cutting one anothers Throats for God's

Sake, pulling down Churches de propoganda fide, and making Divisions

by way of Association.

Here we have Peace and Union brought to pass The Shortest Way,

Extirpation and Destruction prov'd to be the Road to Plenty and

Pleasure: Here all the Wise Nations, a Learned Author would have

Quoted, if he could have found them, are to be seen, who carry on

Exclusive Laws to the general Safety and Satisfaction of their

Subjects.

Occasional Bills may have here a particular Historical, Categorical

Description: But of them by themselves.

Here you might have the Rise, Original, Lawfulness, Usefulness, and

Necessity of Passive Obedience, as fairly represented as a System of

Divinity, and as clearly demonstrated as by a Geographical

Description; and which exceeds our mean Understanding here, 'tis by

the wonderful Assistance of these Glasses, plainly discerned to be

Coherent with Resistance, taking Arms, calling in Foreign Powers, and

the like. --- Here you have a plain Discovery of C. of E. Politicks,

and a Map of Loyalty: Here 'tis as plainly demonstrated as the Nose

in a Man's Face, provided he has one, that a Man may Abdicate, drive

away, and Dethrone his Prince, and yet be absolutely and intirely

free from, and innocent of the least Fracture, Breach, Incroachment,

or Intrenchment, upon the Doctrine of Non-Resistance: Can shoot at

his Prince without any Design to kill him, fight against him without

raising Rebellion, and take up Arms, without leaving War against his

Prince.

Here they can persecute Dissenters, without desiring they should

Conform, conform to the Church they would overthrow; Pray for the

Prince they dare not Name, and Name the Prince they do not pray for.

By the help of these Glasses strange Insights are made, into the vast

mysterious dark World of State Policy; but that which is yet more

strange, and requires vast Volumes to descend to the Particulars of,

and huge Diagrams, Spheres, Charts, and a Thousand nice things to

display is, That in this vast Intelligent Discovery it is not only

made plain, that those things are so, but all the vast Contradictions

are made Rational, reconciled to Practice, and brought down to

Demonstration.

German Clock-Work, the perpetual Motions, the Prim Mobilies of Our

short-sighted World, are Trifles to these Nicer Disquisitions.

Here it would be plain and rational, why a Parliament-Man will spend

5000 l. to be Chosen, that cannot get a Groat Honestly by setting

there: It would be easily made out to be rational, why he that rails

most at a Court is soonest receiv'd into it: Here it would be very

plain, how great Estates are got in little Places, and Double in none

at all. 'Tis easy to be prov'd honest and faithful to Victual the

French Fleet out of English Stores, and let our own Navy want them; a

long Sight, or a large Lunar Perspective, will make all these things

not only plain in Fact, but Rational and Justifiable to all the World.

'Tis a strange thing to any body without doubt, that has not been in

that clear-sighted Region, to comprehend, That those we call

High-flyers in England are the only Friends to the Dissenters, and

have been the most Diligent and Faithful in their Interest, of any

People in the Nation; and yet so it is, Gentlemen, and they ought to

have the Thanks of the whole Body for it.

In this advanc'd Station, we see it plainly by Reflexion, That the

Dissenters, like a parcel of Knaves, have retained all the

High-Church-men in their Pay; they are certainly all in their

Pension-Roll: Indeed, I could not see the Money paid them there, it

was too remote; but I could plainly see the thing; all the deep Lines

of the Project are laid as true, they are so Tackt and Consolidated

together, that if any one will give themselves leave to consider,

they will be most effectually convinced, That the High-Church and the

Dissenters here, are all in a Caball, a meer Knot, a piece of

Clock-work; the Dissenters are the Dial-Plate, and the High-Church

the Movement, the Wheel within the Wheels, the Spring and the Screw

to bring all things to Motion, and make the Hand on the Dial-plate

point which way the Dissenters please.

For what else have been all the Shams they have put upon the

Governments, Kings, States, and People they have been concern'd with?

What Schemes have they laid on purpose to be broken? What vast

Contrivances, on purpose to be ridicul'd and expos'd? The Men are not

Fools, they had never V---d to Consolidate a B--- but that they were

willing to save the Dissenters, and put it into a posture, in which

they were sure it would miscarry. I defy all the Wise Men of the Moon

to show another good reason for it.

Methinks I begin to pity my Brethren, the moderate Men of the Church,

that they cannot see into this New Plot, and to wish they would but

get up into our Consolidator, and take a Journey to the Moon, and

there, by the help of these Glasses, they would see the Allegorical,

Symbollical, Hetrodoxicallity of all this Matter; it would make

immediate Converts of them; they would see plainly, that to Tack and

Consolidate, to make Exclusive Laws, to persecute for Conscience,

disturb, and distress Parties; these are all Phanatick Plots, meer

Combinations against the Church, to bring her into Contempt, and to

fix and establish the Dissenters to the end of the Chapter: But of

this I shall find occasion to speak Occasionally, when an Occasion

presents it self, to examine a certain Occasional Bill, transacting

in these Lunar Regions, some time before I had the Happiness to

arrive there.

In examining the Multitude and Variety of these most admirable

Glasses for the assisting the Opticks, or indeed the Formation of a

new perceptive Faculty; it was you may be sure most surprizing to

find there, that Art had exceeded Nature; and the Power of Vision was

assisted to that prodigious Degree, as even to distinguish Non-Entity

it self; and in these strange Engines of Light it could not but be

very pleasing, to distinguish plainly betwixt Being and Matter, and

to come to a Determination, in the so long Canvast Dispute of

Substance, vel Materialis, vel Spiritualis; and I can solidly affirm,

That in all our Contention between Entity and Non-Entity, there is so

little worth meddling with, that had we had these Glasses some Ages

ago, we should have left troubling our heads with it.

I take upon me, therefore, to assure my Reader, That whoever pleases

to take a Journey, or Voyage, or Flight up to these Lunar Regions, as

soon as ever he comes ashoar there, will presently be convinc'd, of

the Reasonableness of Immaterial Substance, and the Immortality, as

well as Immateriality of the Soul: He will no sooner look into these

Explicating Glasses, but he will be-able to know the separate meaning

of Body, Soul, Spirit, Life, Motion, Death, and a Thousand things

that Wise-men puzzle themselves about here, because they are not

Fools enough to understand.

Here too I find Glasses for the Second Sight, as our Old Women call

it. This Second Sight has been often pretended to in Our Regions, and

some Famous Old Wives have told us, they can see Death, the Soul,

Futurity, and the Neighbourhood of them, in the Countenance: By this

wonderful Art, these good People unfold strange Mysteries, as under

some Irrecoverable Disease, to foretell Death; under Hypocondriack

Melancholy, to presage Trouble of Mind; in pining Youth, to predict

Contagious Love; and an Hundred other Infallibilities, which never

fail to be true as soon as ever they come to pass, and are all

grounded upon the same Infallibility, by which a Shepherd may always

know when any one of his Sheep is Rotten, viz. when he shakes himself

to pieces.

But all this Guess and Uncertainty is a Trifle, to the vast

Discoveries of these Explicatory Optick-Glasses; for here are seen

the Nature and Consequences of Secret Mysteries: Here are read

strange Mysteries relating to Predestination, Eternal Decrees, and

the like: Here 'tis plainly prov'd, That Predestination is, in spight

of all Enthusiastick Pretences, so intirely committed into Man's

Power, that whoever pleases to hang himself to Day, won't Live till

to Morrow: no, though Forty Predestination Prophets were to tell him,

His time was not yet come. There abstruse Points are commonly and

solemnly Discuss'd here; and these People are such Hereticks, that

they say God's Decrees are all subservient to the means of his

Providence; That what we call Providence is a subjecting all things

to the great Chain of Causes and Consequences, by which that one

Grand Decree, That all Effects shall Obey, without reserve to their

proper moving Causes, supercedes all subsequent Doctrines, or

pretended Decrees, or Predestination in the World: That by this Rule,

he that will kill himself, GOD, Nature, Providence, or Decree, will

not be concern'd to hinder him, but he shall Die; any Decrees,

Predestination, or Fore-Knowledge of Infinite Power, to the contrary

in any wise, notwithstanding that it is in a Man's Power to throw

himself into the Water, and be Drown'd; and to kill another Man, and

he shall Die, and to say, God appointed it, is to make him the Author

of Murther, and to injure the Murtherer in putting him to Death for

what he could not help doing.

All these things are received Truths here, and no doubt would be so

every where else, if the Eyes of Reason were opened to the Testimony

of Nature, or if they had the helps of these most Incomparable

Glasses.

Some pretended, by the help of these Second-sight Glasses, to see the

common Periods of Life; and Others said, they could see a great way

beyond the leap in the Dark: I confess, all I could see of the first

was, that holding up the Glass against the Sea, I plainly saw, as it

were on the edge of the Horizon, these Words,

The Verge of Life and Death is here.

'Tis best to know where 'tis, but not how far.

As to seeing beyond Death, all the Glasses I lookt into for that

purpose, made but little of it; and these were the only Tubes that I

found Defective; for here I could discern nothing but Clouds, Mists,

and thick dark hazy Weather; but revolving in my Mind, that I had

read a certain Book in our own Country, called, Nature; it presently

occurr'd, That the Conclusion of it, to all such as gave themselves

the trouble of making out those foolish things call'd Inferences,

was always Look up; upon which, turning one of their Glasses Up, and

erecting the Point of it towards the Zenith, I saw these Words in the

Air, REVELATION, in large Capital Letters.

I had like to have rais'd the Mob upon me for looking upright with

this Glass; for this, they said, was prying into the Mysteries of the

Great Eye of the World; That we ought to enquire no farther than he

has inform'd us, and to believe what he had left us more Obscure:

Upon this, I laid down the Glasses, and concluded, that we had Moses

and the Prophets, and should be never the likelier to be taught by

One come from the Moon.

In short, I found, indeed, they had a great deal more Knowledge of

things than we in this World; and that Nature, Science, and Reason,

had obtained great Improvements in the Lunar World; but as to

Religion, it was the same equally resign'd to and concluded in Faith

and Redemption; so I shall give the World no great Information of

these things.

I come next to some other strange Acquirements obtained by the

helps of these Glasses; and particularly for the discerning the

Imperceptibles of Nature; such as, the Soul, Thought, Honesty,

Religion, Virginity, and an Hundred other nice things, too small

for humane Discerning.

The Discoveries made by these Glasses, as to the Soul, are of a very

diverting Variety; some Hieroglyphical, and Emblematical, and some

Demonstrative.

The Hieroglyphical Discoveries of the Soul make it appear in the

Image of its Maker; and the Analogy is remarkable, even in the very

Simily; for as they represent the Original of Nature as One Great

Eye, illuminating as well as discerning all things; so the Soul,

in its Allegorical, or Hieroglyphical Resemblance, appears as a

Great Eye, embracing the Man, enveloping, operating, and informing

every Part; from whence those sort of People who we falsly call

Politicians, acting so much to put out this Great Eye, by acting

against their common Understandings, are very aptly represented by a

great Eye, with Six or Seven pair of Spectacles on; not but that the

Eye of their Souls may be clear enough of it self, as to the common

Understanding; but that they happen to have occasion to look

sometimes so many ways at once, and to judge, conclude, and

understand so many contrary ways upon one and the same thing; that

they are fain to put double Glasses upon their Understanding, as we

look at the Solar Ecclipses, to represent 'em in different Lights,

least their Judgments should not be wheadled into a Compliance with

the Hellish Resolutions of their Wills; and this is what I call the

Emblematick Representation of the Soul.

As for the Demonstrations of the Soul's Existence, 'tis a plain case,

by these Explicative Glasses, that it is, some have pretended to give

us the Parts; and we have heard of Chyrurgeons, that could read an

Anatomical Lecture on the Parts Of the Soul; and these pretend it to

be a Creature in form, whether Camelion or Salamandar, Authors have

not determin'd; nor is it compleatly discover'd when it comes into

the Body, or how it goes out, or where its Locality or Habitation is,

while 'tis a Resident.

But they very aptly show it, like a Prince, in his Seat, in the

middle of his Palace the Brain, issuing out his incessant Orders

to innumerable Troops of Nerves, Sinews, Muscles, Tendons, Veins,

Arteries, Fibres, Capilaris, and useful Officers, call'd Organici,

who faithfully execute all the Parts of Sensation, Locomotion,

Concoction, &c. and in the Hundred Thousandth part of a Moment,

return with particular Messages for Information, and demand New

Instructions. If any part of his Kingdom, the Body, suffers a

Depredation, or an Invasion of the Enemy, the Expresses fly to the

Seat of the Soul, the Brain, and immediately are order'd back to

smart, that the Body may of course send more Messengers to complain;

immediately other Expresses are dispatcht to the Tongue, with Orders

to cry out, that the Neighbours may come in and help, or Friends send

for the Chyrurgeon: Upon the Application, and a Cure, all is quiet,

and the same Expresses are dispatcht to the Tongue to be hush, and

say no more of it till farther Orders: All this is as plain to be

seen in these Engines, as the Moon of Our World from the World in

the Moon.

As the Being, Nature, and Scituation of humane Soul is thus

Spherically and Mathematically discover'd, I could not find any

Second Thoughts about it in all their Books, whether of their own

Composition or by Translation; for it was a General received Notion,

That there could not be a greater Absurdity in humane Knowledge, than

to imploy the Thoughts in Questioning, what is as plainly known by

its Consequences, as if seen with the Eye; and that to doubt the

Being or Extent of the Soul's Operation, is to imploy her against her

self; and therefore, when I began to argue with my Old Philosopher,

against the Materiality and Immortality of this Mystery we call Soul,

he laught at me, and told me, he found we had none of their Glasses

in our World; and bid me send all our Scepticks, Soul-Sleepers, our

Cowards, Bakers, Kings and Bakewells, up to him into the Moon, if

they wanted Demonstrations; where, by the help of their Engines,

they would make it plain to them, that the Great Eye being one vast

Intellect, Infinite and Eternal, all Inferior Life is a Degree of

himself, and as exactly represents him as one little Flame the

whole Mass of Fire; That it is therefore uncapable of Dissolution,

being like its Original in Duration, as well as in its Powers and

Faculties, but that it goes and returns by Emission, Regression, as

the Great Eye governs and determines; and this was plainly made out,

by the Figure I had seen it in, viz. an Eye, the exact Image of its

Maker: 'Tis true, it was darkened by Ignorance, Folly and Crime, and

therefore oblig'd to wear Spectacles; but tho' these were Defects or

Interruptions in its Operation, they were none in its Nature; which

as it had its immediate Efflux from the Great Eye, and its return to

him must partake of himself, and could not but be of a Quality

uncomatable, by Casualty or Death.

From this Discourse we the more willingly adjourned our present

Thoughts, I being clearly convinced of the Matter; and as for our

Learned Doctors, with their Second and Third Thoughts, I told him

I would recommend them to the Man in the Moon for their farther

Illumination, which if they refuse to accept, it was but just they

should remain in a Wood, where they are, and are like to be, puzzling

themselves about Demonstrations, squaring of Circles, and converting

oblique into right Angles, to bring out a Mathematical Clock-Work

Soul, that will go till the Weight is down, and then stand still till

they know not who must wind it up again.

However, I cannot pass over a very strange and extraordinary piece of

Art which this Old Gentleman inform'd me of, and that was an Engine

to screw a Man into himself: Perhaps our Country-men may be at some

Difficulty to comprehend these things by my dull Description; and to

such I cannot but recommend, a Journey in my Engine to the Moon.

This Machine that I am speaking of, contains a multitude of strange

Springs and Screws, and a Man that puts himself into it, is very

insensibly carried into vast Speculations, Reflexions, and regular

Debates with himself: They have a very hard Name for it in those

Parts; but if I were to give it an English Name, it should be call'd,

The Cogitator, or the Chair of Reflection.

And First, The Person that is seated here feels some pain in passing

some Negative Springs, that are wound up, effectually to shut out

all Injecting, Disturbing Thoughts; and the better to prepare him for

the Operation that is to follow, and this is without doubt a very

rational way; for when a Man can absolutely shut out all manner of

thinking, but what he is upon, he shall think the more Intensly upon

the one object before him.

This Operation past, here are certain Screws that draw direct Lines

from every Angle of the Engine to the Brain of the Man, and at the

same time, other direct Lines to his Eyes; at the other end of which

Lines, there are Glasses which convey or reflect the Objects the

Person is desirous to think upon.

Then the main Wheels are turn'd, which wind up according to their

several Offices; this the Memory, that the Understanding; a third the

Will, a fourth the thinking Faculty; and these being put all into

regular Motions, pointed by direct Lines to their proper Objects,

and perfectly uninterrupted by the Intervention of Whimsy, Chimera,

and a Thousand fluttering Damons that Gender in the Fancy, but are

effectually Lockt out as before, assist one another to receive right

Notions, and form just Ideas of the things they are directed to, and

from thence the Man is impower'd to make right Conclusions, to think

and act like himself, suitable to the sublime Qualities his Soul was

originally blest with.

There never was a Man went into one of these thinking Engines, but he

came wiser out than he was before; and I am persuaded, it would be a

more effectual Cure to our Deism, Atheism, Scepticism, and all other

Scisms, than ever the Italian's Engine, for Curing the Gout by

cutting off the Toe.

This is a most wonderful Engine, and performs admirably, and my

Author gave me extraordinary Accounts of the good Effects of it; and

I cannot but tell my Reader, That our Sublunar World suffers Millions

of Inconveniencies, for want of this thinking Engine: I have had a

great many Projects in my Head, how to bring our People to regular

thinking, but 'tis in vain without this Engin; and how to get the

Model of it I know not; how to screw up the Will, the Understanding,

and the rest of the Powers; how to bring the Eye, the Thought, the

Fancy, and the Memory, into Mathematical Order, and obedient to

Mechanick Operation; help Boyl, Norris, Newton, Manton, Hammond,

Tillotson, and all the Learned Race, help Phylosophy, Divinity,

Physicks, Oeconomicks, all's in vain, a Mechanick Chair of Reflection

is the only Remedy that ever I found in my Life for this Work.

As to the Effects of Mathematical thinking, what Volumes might be

writ of it will more easily appear, if we consider the wondrous

Usefulness of this Engine in all humane Affairs; as of War, Peace,

Justice, Injuries, Passion, Love, Marriage, Trade, Policy, and

Religion.

When a Man has been screw'd into himself, and brought by this Art to

a Regularity of Thought, he never commits any Absurdity after it; his

Actions are squared by the same Lines, for Action is but the

Consequence of Thinking; and he that acts before he thinks, sets

humane Nature with the bottom upward.

M. would never have made his Speech, nor the famous B----ly wrote a

Book, if ever they had been in this thinking Engine: One would have

never told us of Nations he never saw, nor the other told us, he had

seen a great many, and was never the Wiser.

H. had never ruin'd his Family to Marry Whore, Thief and

Beggar-Woman, in one Salliant Lady, after having been told so

honestly, and so often of it by the very Woman her self.

Our late unhappy Monarch had never trusted the English Clergy, when

they preacht up that Non-Resistance, which he must needs see they

could never Practice; had his Majesty been screw'd up into this

Cogitator, he had presently reflected, that it was against Nature to

expect they should stand still, and let him tread upon them: That

they should, whatever they had preacht or pretended to, hold open

their Throats to have them be cut, and tye their own Hands from

resisting the Lord's Anointed.

Had some of our Clergy been screw'd in this Engine, they had never

turned Martyrs for their Allegiance to the Late King, only for the

Lechery of having Dr. S------- in their Company.

Had our Merchants been manag'd in this Engine, they had never trusted

their Turkey Fleet with a famous Squadron, that took a great deal of

care to Convoy them safe into the Enemies Hands.

Had some People been in this Engine, when they had made a certain

League in the World, in order to make amends for a better made

before, they would certainly have consider'd farther, before they had

embarkt with a Nation, that are neither fit to go abroad nor stay at

Home.

As for the Thinking practis'd in Noble Speeches, Occasional Bills,

Addressings about Prerogative, Convocation Disputes, Turnings in and

Turnings out at Ours, and all the Courts of Christendom, I have

nothing to say to it.

Had the Duke of Bavaria been in our Engine, he would never have begun

a Quarrel, which he knew all the Powers of Europe were concern'd to

suppress, and lay all other Business down till it was done.

Had the Elector of Saxony past the Operation of this Engine, he would

never have beggar'd a Rich Electorate, to ruin a beggar'd Crown, nor

sold himself for a Kingdom hardly worth any Man's taking: He would

never have made himself less than he was, in hopes of being really no

greater; and stept down from a Protestant Duke, and Imperial Elector,

to be a Nominal Mock King with a shadow of Power, and a Name without

honour, Dignity or Strength.

Had Mons. Tallard been in our Engine, he would not only not have

attackt the Confederates when they past the Morass and Rivulet in his

Front, but not have attackt them at all, nor have suffer'd them to

have attackt him, it being his Business not to have fought at all,

but have linger'd out the War, till the Duke of Savoy having been

reduced, the Confederate Army must have been forced to have divided

themselves of course, in order to defend their own.

Some that have been very forward to have us proceed The Shortest

Way with the Scots, may be said to stand in great need of this Chair

of Reflection, to find out a just Cause for such a War, and to make

a Neighbour-Nation making themselves secure, a sufficient Reason

for another Neighbour-Nation to fall upon them: Our Engine would

presently show it them in a clear sight, by way of Paralel, that 'tis

just with the fame Right as a Man may break open a House, because the

People bar and bolt the Windows.

If some-body has chang'd Hands there from bad to worse, and open'd

instead of closing Differences in those Cases, the Cogitator migyt

have brought them, by more regular Thinking, to have known that was

not at all the Method of bringing the S---s to Reason.

Our Cogitator would be a very necessary thing to show some People,

That Poverty and Weakness is not a sufficient Ground to oppress a

Nation, and their having but little Trade, cannot be a sufficient

Ground to equip Fleets to take away what they have.

I cannot deny, that I have often thought they have had something

of this Engine in our Neighbouring Antient Kingdom, since no Man,

however we pretend to be angry, but will own they are in the right

of it, as to themselves, to Vote and procure Bills for their own

Security, and not to do as others demand without Conditions fit to

be accepted: But of that by it self.

There are abundance of People in Our World, of all sorts and

Conditions, that stand in need of our thinking Engines, and to be

screw'd into themselves a little, that they might think as directly

as they speak absurdly: But of these also in a Class by it self.

This Engine has a great deal of Philosophy in it; and particularly,

'tis a wonderful Remedy against Poreing; and as it was said of Mons.

Jurieu at Amsterdam, that he us'd to lose himself in himself; by the

Assistance of this piece of Regularity, a Man is most effectually

secur'd against bewildring Thoughts, and by direct thinking, he

prevents all manner of dangerous wandring, since nothing can come to

more speedy Conclusions, than that which in right Lines, points to

the proper Subject of Debate.

All sorts of Confusion of Thoughts are perfectly avoided and

prevented in this case, and a Man is never troubled with Spleen,

Hyppo, or Mute Madness, when once he has been thus under the

Operation of the Screw: It prevents abundance of Capital Disasters

in Men, in private Affairs; it prevents hasty Marriages, rash Vows,

Duels, Quarrels, Suits at Law, and most sorts of Repentance. In the

State, it saves a Government from many Inconveniences; it checks

immoderate Ambition, stops Wars, Navies and Expeditions; especially

it prevents Members making long Speeches when they have nothing to

say; it keeps back Rebellions, Insurrections, Clashings of Houses,

Occasional Bills, Tacking, &c.

It has a wonderful Property in our Affairs at Sea, and has prevented

many a Bloody Fight, in which a great many honest Men might have lost

their Lives that are now useful Fellows, and help to Man and manage

Her Majesty's Navy.

What if some People are apt to charge Cowardice upon some People in

those Cases? 'Tis plain that cannot be it, for he that dare incur the

Resentment of the English Mob, shows more Courage than would be able

to carry him through Forty Sea-fights.

'Tis therefore for want of being in this Engine, that we censure

People, because they don't be knocking one another on the Head, like

the People at the Bear-Garden; where, if they do not see the Blood

run about, they always cry out, A Cheat; and the poor Fellows are

fain to cut one another, that they may not be pull'd a pieces; where

the Case is plain, they are bold for fear, and pull up Courage enough

to Fight, because they are afraid of the People.

This Engine prevents all sorts of Lunacies, Love-Frenzies, and

Melancholy-Madness, for preserving the Thought in right Lines to

direct Objects, it is impossible any Deliriums, Whimsies, or

fluttering Air of Ideas, can interrupt the Man, he can never be Mad;

for which reason I cannot but recommend it to my Lord S---, my Lord

N---, and my Lord H-----, as absolutely necesssary to defend them

from the State-Madness, which for some Ages has possest their

Families, and which runs too much in the Blood.

It is also an excellent Introduction to Thought, and therefore very

well adapted to those People whose peculiar Talent and Praise is,

That they never think at all. Of these, if his Grace of B---d would

please to accept Advice from the Man in the Moon, it should be to put

himself into this Engine, as a Soveraign Cure to the known Disease

call'd the Thoughtless Evil.

But above all, it is an excellent Remedy, and very useful to a sort

of People, who are always Travelling in Thought, but never Deliver'd

into Action; who are so exceeding busy at Thinking, they have no

leisure for Action; of whom the late Poet sung well to the purpose;

---- Some modern Coxcombs, who

Retire to Think, 'cause they have nought to do;

For Thoughts were giv'n for Actions Government,

Where Action ceases, Thought Impertinent:

The Sphere of Action is Life's Happiness,

And he that Thinks beyond, Thinks like an Ass.

Rochest. Poems, p. 9.

These Gentlemen would make excellent use of this Engine, for it would

teach 'em to dispatch one thing before they begin another; and

therefore is of singular use to honest S----, whose peculiar it was,

to be always beginning Projects, but never finish any.

The Variety of this Engine, its Uses, and Improvements, are

Innumerable, and the Reader must not expect I can give any thing like

a perfect Description of it.

There are yet another sort of Machine, which I never obtained a sight

of, till the last Voyage I made to this Lunar Orb, and these are

called Elevators: The Mechanick Operations of these are wonderful,

and helpt by Fire; by which the Sences are raised to all the strange

Extreames we can imagine, and whereby the Intelligent Soul is made to

converse with its own Species, whether embody'd or not.

Those that are rais'd to a due pitch in this wondrous Frame, have a

clear Prospect into the World of Spirits, and converse with Visions,

Guardian-Angels, Spirits departed, and what not: And as this is a

wonderful Knowledge, and not to be obtained, but by the help of this

Fire; so those that have try'd the Experiment, give strange Accounts

of Sympathy, Prexistence of Souls, Dreams, and the like.

I confess, I always believ'd a converse of Spirits, and have heard of

some who have experienced so much of it, as they could obtain upon no

Body else to believe.

I never saw any reason to doubt the Existent State of the Spirit

before embody'd, any more than I did of its Immortality after it

shall be uncas'd, and the Scriptures saying, the Spirit returns to

God that gave it, implies a coming from, or how could it be call'd a

return.

Nor can I see a reason why Embodying a Spirit should altogether

Interrupt its Converse with the World of Spirits, from whence it was

taken; and to what else shall we ascribe Guardian Angels, in which

the Scripture is also plain; and from whence come Secret Notices,

Impulse of Thought, pressing Urgencies of Inclination, to or from

this or that altogether Involuntary; but from some waking kind

Assistant wandring Spirit, which gives secret hints to its

Fellow-Creature, of some approaching Evil or Good, which it was not

able to foresee.

For Spirits without the helps of Voice converse.

I know we have supplied much of this with Enthusiasm and conceited

Revelation; but the People of this World convince us, that it may be

all Natural, by obtaining it in a Mechanick way, viz. by forming

something suitable to the sublime Nature, which working by Art, shall

only rectify the more vigorous Particles of the Soul, and work it up

to a suitable Elevation. This Engine is wholly applied to the Head,

and Works by Injection; the chief Influence being on what we call

Fancy, or Imagination, which by the heat of strong Ideas, is

fermented to a strange heighth, and is thus brought to see backward

and forward every way, beyond it self: By this a Man fancies himself

in the Moon, and realizes things there as distinctly, as if he was

actually talking to my Old Phylosopher.

This indeed is an admirable Engine, 'tis compos'd of an Hundred

Thousand rational Consequences, Five times the number of Conjectures,

Supposes, and Probabilities, besides an innumerable Company of

fluttering Suggestions, and Injections, which hover round the

Imagination, and are all taken in as fast as they can be Concocted

and Digested there: These are form'd into Ideas, and some of those so

well put together, so exactly shap'd, so well drest and set out by

the Additional Fire of Fancy, that it is no uncommon thing for the

Person to be intirely deceived by himself, not knowing the brat of

his own Begetting, nor be able to distinguish between Reality and

Representation: From hence we have some People talking to Images of

their own forming, and seeing more Devils and Spectres than ever

appear'd: From hence we have weaker Heads not able to bear the

Operation, seeing imperfect Visions, as of Horses and Men without

Heads or Arms, Light without Fire, hearing Voices without Sound, and

Noises without Shapes, as their own Fears or Fancies broke the

Phanomena before the intire Formation.

But the more Genuine and perfect Use of these vast Elevations of the

Fancy, which are perform'd, as I said, by the Mechanick Operation of

Innate Fire, is to guide Mankind to as much Fore-sight of things, as

either by Nature, or by the Aid of any thing Extranatural, may be

obtain'd; and by this exceeding Knowledge, a Man shall forebode to

himself approaching Evil or Good, so as to avoid this, or be in the

way of that; and what if I should say, That the Notices of these

things are not only frequent, but constant, and require nothing of

us, but to make use of this Elevator, to keep our Eyes, our Ears,

and our Fancies open to the hints; and observe them;

You may suppose me, if you please, come by this time into those

Northern Kingdoms I mention'd before, where my Old Philosopher was a

Native, and not to trouble you with any of the needful Observations,

Learned Inscriptions, &c. on the way, according to the laudable

practices of the Famous Mr. Br---mly, 'tis sufficient to tell you

I found there an Opulent, Populous, Potent and Terrible People.

I found them at War with one of the greatest Monarchs of the Lunar

World, and at the same time miserably rent and torn, mangl'd and

disorder'd among themselves.

As soon as I observ'd the Political posture of their Affairs, (for

here a Man sees things mighty soon by the helps of such a Masterly

Eye-sight as I have mention'd) and remembring what is said for our

Instruction, That a Kingdom divided against its self cannot stand; I

ask'd the Old Gentleman if he had any Estate in that Country? He told

me, no great matter; but ask'd me why I put that Question to him?

Because, said I, if this People go on fighting and snarling at all

the World, and one among another in this manner, they will certainly

be Ruin'd and Undone, either subdu'd by some more powerful Neighbour;

whilst one Party will stand still and see the t'others Throat cut,

tho' their own Turn immediately follows, or else they will destroy

and devour one another. Therefore I told him I would have him Turn

his Estate into Money, and go some where else; or go back to the

other World with me.

No, no, reply'd the Old Man, I am in no such Fear at this Time, the

Scale of Affairs is very lately chang'd here, says he, in but a very

few Years.

I know nothing of that, said I, but I am sure there never was but

one spot of Ground in that World which I came from, that was divided

like them, and that's that very Country I liv'd in. Here are three

Kingdoms of you in one spot, said I, One has already been Conquer'd

and Subdu'd, the t'other suppres'd its Native lnhabitants, and

planted it with her own, and now carries it with so high a Hand over

them of her own Breed, that she limits their Trade, stops their

Ports, when the Inhabitants have made their Manufactures, these wont

give them leave to send them abroad, impose Laws upon them, refuse to

alter and amend those they would make for themselves, make them pay

Customs, Excises, and Taxes, and yet pay the Garrisons and Guards

that defend them, themselves; Press their Inhabitants to their

Fleets, and carry away their Old Veteran Troops that should defend

them, and leave them to raise more to be serv'd in the same manner,

will let none of their Mony be carry'd over thither, nor let them

Coin any of their own; and a great many such hardships they suffer

under the Hand of this Nation as meer Slaves and Conquer'd People,

tho' the greatest part of the Traders are the People of the very

Nation that treats 'em thus.

On the other hand, this creates Eternal Murmurs, Heart-burnings and

Regret, both in the Natives and the Transplanted Inhabitants; the

first have shewn their Uneasiness by frequent Insurrections and

Rebellions, for Nature prompts the meanest Animal to struggle for

Liberty; and these struggles have often been attended with great

Cruelty, Ravages, Death, Massacres, and Ruin both of Families and the

Country it self: As to the Transplanted Inhabitants, they run into

Clandestine Trade, into corresponding with their Masters Enemies,

Victualling their Navies, Colonies and the like, receiving and

importing their Goods in spight of all the Orders and Directions

to the contrary.

These are the effects of Divisions, and Feuds on that side; on the

other hand there is a Kingdom Entire Unconquer'd and Independent, and

for the present, under the same Monarch with the rest.---- But here

their Feuds are greater than with the other, and more dangerous by

far because National: This Kingdom joins to the North part of the

first Kingdom, and Terrible Divisions ly among the two Nations.

The People of these two Kingdoms are call'd if you please for

distinction sake, for I cannot well make you understand their hard

Names, Solunarians and Nolunarians, these to the South and those

to the North, the Solunarians were divided in their Articles of

Religion; the Governing Party, or the Establish'd Church, I shall

call the Solunarian Church; but the whole Kingdom was full of a sort

of Religious People call'd Crolians, who like our Dissenters in

England profess divers sub-divided Opinions by themselves, and cou'd

not, or wou'd not, let it go which way it will, joyn with the

Establish'd Church.

On the other hand, the Establish'd Church in the Northern Kingdom

was all Crolians, but full of Solunarians in Opinions, who were

Dissenters there, as the Crolians were Dissenters in the South,

and this unhappy mixture occasion'd endless Feuds, Divisions,

Sub-divisions and Animosities without Number, of which hereafter.

The Northern Men are Bold, Terrible Numerous and Brave, to the last

Degree, but Poor, and by the Encroachments of their Neighbours,

growing poorer every Day.

The Southern are equally Brave, more Numerous and Terrible, but

Wealthy and care not for Wars, had rather stay at Home and Quarrel

with one another, than go Abroad to Fight, making good an Old Maxim,

Too Poor t'Agree, and yet too Rich to Fight.

Between these the Feud is great, and every Day growing greater; and

those People who pretend to have been in the Cogitator or thinking

Engine tell us, all the lines of Consequences in that Affair point at

a fatal period between the Kingdoms.

The Complaints also are great, and back'd with fiery Arguments on

both sides; the Northern Men say, the Solunarians have dealt unjustly

and unkindly by them in several Articles; but the Southern Men reply

with a most powerful Argument, viz. they are Poor, and therefore

ought to be Oppress'd, Suppress'd, or any thing.

But the main Debate is like to lye upon the Article of Choosing a

King; both the Nations being under one Government at present, but the

Settlement ending in the Reigning Line, the Northern Men refuse to

joyn in Government again, unless they have a rectification of some

Conditions in which, they say, they have the worst of it.

In this case, even the Southern Men themselves, say, they believe

the Nolunarians have been in the Chair of Reflection, the thinking

Engine, and that having screw'd their Understandings into a Direct

Position to that Matter before them, they have made a right Judgment

of their own Affairs, and with all their Poverty stand on the best

Foot as to Right.

But as the matter of this Northern Quarrel comes under a Second Head,

and is more properly the Subject of a Second Voyage to the Moon; the

Reader may have it more at large consider'd in another Class, and

some farther Enlightnings in that Affair than perhaps can be

reasonably expected of me here.

But of all the Feuds and Brangles that ever poor Nation was embroild

in, of all the Quarrels, the Factions and Parties that ever the

People of any Nation thought worth while to fall out for, none were

ever in reality so light, in effect so heavy, in appearance so great,

in substance so small, in name so terrible, in nature so trifling, as

those for which this Southern Country was altogether by the Ears

among themselves.

And this was one Reason why I so earnestly enquir'd of my Lunarian

Philosopher, whether he had an Estate in that Country or no. But

having told him the Cause of that enquiry, he reply'd, there was one

thing in the Nature of his Country-men which secur'd them from the

ruin which usually attended divided Nations, viz. that if any Foreign

Nation thinking to take the advantage of their Intestine Divisions

fell upon them in the highest of all their Feuds, they'd lay aside

their Parties and Quarrels and presently fall in together to beat out

the common Enemy; and then no sooner had they obtain'd Peace abroad,

by their Conduct and Bravery, but they would fall to cutting one

anothers Throats again at home as naturally as if it had been their

proper Calling, and that for Trifles too, meer Trifles.

Very well, said I to my learned Self, pretty like my own Country

still, that whatever Peace they have abroad, are sure to have none

at home.

To come at the historical Account of these Lunarian Dissentions, it

will be absolutely necessary to enter a little into the Story of the

Place, at least as far as relates to the present Constitution, both

of the People, the Government, and the Subject of their present

Quarrels.

And first we are to understand, that there has for some Ages been

carry'd on in these Countries, a private feud or quarrel among the

People, about a thing call'd by them Upogyla, with us very vulgarly

call'd Religion.

This Difference, as in its Original it was not great, nor indeed

upon Points accounted among themselves Essential, so it had never

been a Difference of any height, if there had not always been

some one thing, or other, hapning in the State which made the

Court-Polititians think it necessary to keep the People busy and

embroil'd, to prevent their more narrow Inspection into Depredations

and Encroachments on their Liberties, which was always making on

them by the Court.

'Tis not deny'd but there might be a Native want of Charity in the

Inhabitant, adapting them to Feud, and particularly qualifying them

to be alwavs Piquing one another; and some of their own Nation, who

by the help of the famous Perspectives before-mentioned, pretend to

have seen farther into the Insides of Nature and Constitution than

other People, tell us the cross Lines of Nature which appear in the

make of those particular People, signify a direct Negative as to the

Article of Charity and good Neighbour-hood.

'Twas particularly unhappy to this wrangling People, that Reasons

of State should always fall in, to make that uncharitableness and

continual quarrelling Humour necessary to carry on the Publick

Affairs of the Nation, and may pass for a certain Proof, that the

State was under some Diseases and Convulsions, which, like a Body

that digests nothing so well as what is hurtful to its Constitution,

makes use of those things for its Support, which are in their very

Nature, fatal to its being, and must at last tend to its Destruction.

But as this however enclin'd them to be continually Snarling at one

another, so as in all Quarrels it generally appears one Side must go

down.

The prevailing Party therefore always kept the Power in their Hands,

and as the under were always Subject to the lash they soon took

care to hook their Quarrel into the Affairs of State, and so join

Religious Differences, and Civil Differences together.

These things had long embroil'd the Nation, and frequently involv'd

them in bitter Enmities, Feuds, and Quarrels, and once in a tedious,

ruinous, and bloody War in their own Bowels, in which, contrary to

all expectation, this lesser Party prevail'd.

And since the allegorick Relation may bear great Similitude with

our European Affairs on this side the Moon: I shall for the ease of

Expression, and the better Understanding of the Reader, frequently

call them by the same Names our unhappy Parties are call'd by in

England, as Solunnarian Churchmen, and Crolian Dissenters, at the

same time desiring my Reader to observe, that he is always to

remember who it is we are talking of, and that he is by no means to

understand me of any Person, Party, People, Nation, or Place on this

side the Moon, any Expression, Circumstance, Similitude, or

Appearance to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

This premis'd, I am to tell the Reader that the last Civil War

in this Lunar Country ended in the Victors confounding their own

Conquests by their intestine Broils, they being as is already noted

a most Eternally Quarrelling Nation; upon this new Breach, they that

first began the War, turn'd about, and pleading that they took up

Arms to regulate the Government, not to overthrow it, fell in with

the Family of their Kings, who had been banish'd, and one of them

destroy'd, and restor'd the Crown to the Family, and the Nation to

the Crown, just for all the World as the Presbyterians in England

did, in the Case of King Charles the Second.

The Party that was thus restor'd, accepted the return the others made

to their Duty, and their Assistance in restoring the Family of their

Monarch, but abated not a Tittle of the old Rancour against them as a

Party which they entertain'd at their first taking Arms, not allowing

the return they had made to be any attonement at all for the Crimes

they had been guilty of before. 'Tis true they pass'd an Act or Grant

of General Pardon, and Oblivion, as in all such Cases is usual, and

as without which the other would never ha' come in, or have join'd

Powers to form the Restoration they were bringing to pass, but

the old Feud of Religion continu'd with this addition, that the

Dissenters were Rebels, Murtherers, King-killers, Enemies to Monarchy

and Civil Government, lovers of Confusion, popular, anarchial

Governments, and movers of Sedition; that this was in their very

Nature and Principles, and the like.

In this Condition, and under these Mortifications this Party of

People liv'd just an Egyptian Servitude, viz. of 40 Years, in

which time they were frequently vex'd with Persecution, Harass'd,

Plunder'd, Fin'd, Imprisoned, and very hardly Treated, insomuch that

they pretend to be able to give an account of vast Sums of their

Country-Mony, levy'd upon them on these Occasions, amounting as I

take it to 2 Millions of Lunatians, a Coin they keep their Accounts

by there, and much about the value of our Pound Sterling; besides

this they were hook't into a great many Sham Plots, and Sworn out of

their Lives and Estates in such a manner, that in the very next Reign

the Government was so sensible of their hard treatment, that they

revers'd several Sentences by the same Authority that had Executed

them; a most undeniable Proof they were asham'd of what had been

done; at last, the Prince who was restor'd as abovesaid, dyed, and

his Brother mounted the Throne; and now began a third Scene of

Affairs, for this Prince was neither Church-man, nor Dissenter, but

of a different Religion from them all, known in that Country by the

Name of Abrogratzianism, and this Religion of his had this one

absolutely necessary Consequence in it, that a Man could not be

sincerely and heartily of this, but he must be an Implacable hater

of both the other. As this is laid down as a previous Supposition,

we are with the same Reason to imagine this Prince to be entirely

bent upon the Suppression and Destruction of both the other, if not

absolutely as to Life and Estate, yet entirely as to Religion.

To bring this the more readily to pass like a true Polititian, had

his Methods and Particulars been equally Politick with his Generals,

he began at the right End, viz. to make the Breach between the

Solunnarian Church, and the Crolian Dissenters as wide as possible,

and to do this it was resolv'd to shift Sides, and as the Crown had

always took part with the Church, crush'd, humbl'd, persecuted, and

by all means possible mortify'd the Dissenters, as is noted in the

Reign of his Predecessor. This Prince resolv'd to caress, cherish,

and encourage the Crolians by all possible Arts and outward

Endearments, not so much that they purpos'd them any real Favour, for

the destruction of both was equally determin'd, nor so much that they

expected to draw them over to Abrogratzianism, but Two Reasons may be

suppos'd to give Rise to this Project.

1. The Lunarian Church Party had all along Preach'd up for a part of

their Religion, that Absolute undisputed Obedience, was due from

every Subject to their Prince without any Reserve, Reluctance or

Repining; that as to Resistance, it was Fatal to Body, Soul,

Religion, Justice and Government; and tho' the Doctrine was Repugnant

to Nature, and to the very Supreme Command it self, yet he that

resisted, receiv'd to himself Damnation, just for all the World

like our Doctrine of Passive Obedience. Now tho' these Solunarian

Church-Men did not absolutely believe all they said themselves to

be true, yet they found it necessary to push these things to the

uttermost Extremities, because they might the better fix upon the

Crolian Dissenters, the Charge of professing less Loyal Principles

than they. For as to the Crolians, they profess'd openly they would

pay Obedience to the Prince, as far as the Laws directed, but no

farther.

These things were run up to strange heights, and the People were

always falling out about what they would do, or wou'd not do, if

things were so or so, as they were not, and were never likely to be;

and the hot Men on both sides were every now and then going together

by the Ears about Chimeras, Shadows, May-be's and Supposes.

The hot Men of the Solunarian Church were for knocking the Crolians

in the Head, because as they said they were Rebels, their Fathers

were Rebels, and they would certainly turn Rebels again upon occasion.

The Crolians insisted upon it, that they had nothing to do with what

was done before they were Born, that if they were Criminal, because

their Fathers were so, then a great many who were now of the

Solunarian Church were as Guilty as they, several of the best Members

of that Church having been Born of Crolian Parents.

In the matter of Loyalty they insisted upon it, they were as Loyal as

the Solunarians, for that they were as Loyal as Nature, Reason and

the Laws both of God and Man requir'd, and what the Other talk'd of

more, was but a meer pretence, and so it would be found if ever their

Prince should have occasion to put them to the Tryal, that he that

pretended to go beyond the Power of Nature and Reason, must indeed go

beyond them, and they never desir'd to be brought into the extream,

but they were ready at any time to shew such Proofs, and give such

Demonstrations of their Loyalty, as would satisfy any reasonable

Prince, and for more they had nothing to say.

In this posture of Affairs, this new Prince found his Subjects when

he came to the Crown, the Solunarian Church Caress'd him, and

notwithstanding his being Devoted to the Abrogratzian Faith, they

Crown'd him with extraordinary Acclamations.

They were the rather enclin'd to push this forward by how much they

thought it would singularly mortify the Crolians, and all the sorts

of Dissenters, for they had all along declar'd their abhorrence of

the Abrogratzians to such a Degree that they publickly endeavour'd

to have got a general Concurrence of the whole Nation in the Publick

Cortez, or Dyet of the Kingdom, to have joyn'd with them in Excluding

this very Prince by Name, and all other Princes that should ever

embrace the Abrogratzian Faith.

And it wanted but a very little of bringing it to pass, for almost

all the Great Men of the Nation, tho' Solunarians, yet that were

Men of Temper, Moderation, and Fore-sight, were for this exclusive

Law. But the High Priests and Patriarchs of the Solunarian Church

prevented it, and upon pretence of this Passive Obedience Principle,

made their Interest and gave their Voices for Crowning, or Entailing

the Crown and Government on the Head of one of the most Implacable

Enemies both to their Religion and Civil Right that ever the Nation

saw; but they liv'd to Repent it too late.

This Conquest over the Crolians and the Moderate Solunarians, if it

did not suppress them entirely, it yet gave the other Part such an

ascendant over them, that they made no Doubt when that Prince came to

the Crown, they had done so much to oblige him, that he could deny

them nothing, and therefore in expectation they swallow'd up the

whole Body of the Crolians at once, and began to talk of nothing

less than Banishing them to the Northern part of the Country, or to

certain Islands, and Countries a vast way off, where formerly great

numbers of them had fled for shelter in like Cases.

And this was the more probable by an unhappy Stroke these Crolians

attempted to strike, but miscarry'd in at the very beginning of this

Prince's Reign: for as they had always profest an aversion to this

Prince on account of his Religion, as soon as their other King was

dead, they set up one of his Natural Sons against this King, which

the Solunarians had so joyfully Crown'd. This young Prince invaded

his Dominions, and great Numbers of the most zealous Crolians joyn'd

him---- But to cut the Story short, he was entirely routed by the

Forces of the new Prince, for all the Solunarian Church joyn'd with

him against the Crolians without any respect to the Interest of

Religion, so they overthrew their Brethren: The young invaded Prince

was taken and put to Death openly, and Great Cruelties were exercis'd

in cold Blood upon the poor unhappy People that were taken in the

Defeat!

Thus a second time these Loyal Solunarian Church-men Establish'd

their Enemy, and built up what they were glad afterwards to pull down

again, and to beg the assistance of those Crolians whom they had so

rudely handled, to help them demolish the Power they had erected

themselves, and which now began to set its foot upon the Throat of

those that nourish'd and supported it.

Upon this exceeding Loyalty and blind Assistance given to their

Prince, the Solunarians made no question but they had so Eternally

bound him to them, that it would be in their Power to pull down the

very Name of Crolianism, and utterly destroy it from the Nation.

But the time came on to Undeceive them, for this Prince, whose

Principle as an Abrogratzian, was to destroy them both, as it

happened, was furnish'd with Counsellors and Ecclesiasticks of his

own Profession, ten thousand Times more bent for their general Ruin,

than himself.

For abstracted from the Venom and Rancour of his Profession as an

Abrogratzian, and from the furious Zeal of his Bramin, Priests, and

Religious People, that continually hung about him, and that prompted

him to act against his Temper and Inclination, by which he ruin'd

all, he was else a forward and generous Prince, and likely to have

made his People Great and Flourishing.

But his furious Church-Men ruin'd all his good Designs, and turn'd

all his Projects to compass the Introduction of his own Religion into

his Dominions.

Nay, and had he not fatally been push'd on by such as really design'd

his Ruin, to drive this deep Design on too hastily and turn the

Scale of his Management from a close and conceal'd, to an open and

profess'd Design, he might have gone a great way with it.---------

Had he been content to have let that have been twenty Year a doing,

which he impatiently as well as preposterously attempted all at

once.------- Wise Men have thought he might in time have supprest the

Solunarian Religion, and have set up his own.

To give a short Scheme of his Proceedings, and with them of the

reason of his Miscarriage.

1. Having defeated the Rebellious Crolians, as is before noted, and

reflecting on the Danger he was in upon the sudden Progress of that

Rebellion, for indeed he was within a trifle of Ruin in that Affair;

and had not the Crolians been deceiv'd by the darkness of the Night

and led to a large Ditch of Water, which they could not pass over,

they had certainly surpriz'd and overthrown his Army, and cut them in

pieces, before they had known who had hurt them. Upon the Sense of

this Danger, he takes up a pretence of necessity for the being always

ready to resist the Factious Crolians, as he call'd them, and by that

Insinuation hooks himself into a standing Army in time of Peace;

----- nay, and so easy were the Solunarian Church to yield up any

point, which they did but imagin would help to crush their Brethren

the Crolians, that they not only consented to this unusual Invasion

of their antient Liberties, but sent up several Testimonials of their

free Consent, nay, and of their Joy of having arriv'd to so great a

Happiness, as to have a Prince that setting aside the formality of

Laws would vouchsafe to Govern them by the glorious Method of a

Standing Army.------

These Testimonials were things not much unlike our Addresses in

England, and which when I heard I could not but remember our Case, in

the time of the late King James, when the City of Carlisle in their

Address, Thankt his Majesty for the Establishing a Standing Army in

England in time of Peace, calling it the Strength, and Glory of the

Kingdom.

So strong is the Ambition and Envy of Parties, these Solunarian

Gentlemen not grudging to put out one of their own eyes, so they

might at the same time put out both the Eyes of their Enemies; the

Crolians rather consented to this badge of their own Slavery, and

brought themselves who were a free People before, under the Power and

Slavery of the Sword.

The ease with which this Prince got over so considerable a Point as

this, made him begin to be too credulous and to perswade himself

that the Solunarian Church-Men were really in earnest, as to their

Pageant-Doctrin of Non-Resistance, and that as he had seen them bear

with strange extravagancies on the Crolian Part, they were real and

in earnest when they Preach'd that Men ought to obey for Conscience's

sake, whatever hardship were impos'd upon them, and however unjust,

or contrary to the Laws of God, Nature, Reason, or their Country;

what Principle in the World could more readily prompt a Prince to

attempt what he so earnestly coveted, as this zealous Prince did the

restoring the Abrogratzian Faith, for since he had but two sorts of

People to do with; one he had crush'd by force, and had brought the

other to profess it their Religion, their Duty, and their Resolution

to bear every thing he thought fit to Impose upon them, and that they

should be Damn'd if they resisted, the Work seem'd half done to his

Hand.

And indeed when I reflected on the Coherence of things, I could not

so much blame this Prince for his venturing upon the probability, for

whoever was but to go up to this Lunar World and read the Stories of

that Time, with what Fury the hot Men of the Solunarian Church acted

against the Dissenting Crolians, and with what warmth they assisted

their Prince against them, and how Cruelly they insulted them after

they were defeated in their attempt of Dethroning him, how zealously

they Preach'd up the Doctrine of absolute undisputed Resignation to

his Will, how frequently they obey'd several of his encroachments

upon their Liberties, and what solemn Protestations they made to

submit to him in any thing, and to stand by and assist him in

whatever he Commanded them to the last Drop, much with the same Zeal

and Forwardness, as our Life-and-Fortune Men did here in England. I

say, when all this was consider'd, I could not so much condemn his

Credulity, nor blame him for believing them, for no Man could have

doubted their Sincerity, but he that at the same time must have Taxt

them with most unexampled Hipocrisie.

For the Solunarians now began to discern their Prince was not really

on their side, that neither in State Matters any more than Religion,

he had any affection for them, and the first absolute Shock he gave

them, was in Publishing a general Liberty to the Crolians. 'Tis true

this was not out of respect to the Crolian Religion any more than the

Solunarian, but purely because by that means he made way for an

Introduction of the Abrogratzian Religion which now began to appear

publickly in the Country.

But however, as this was directly contrary to the expectation of the

Solunarians, it gave them such a disgust against their Prince, that

from that very time being disappointed in the Soveraign Authority

they expected, they entred into the deepest and blackest Conspiracy

against their Prince and his Government that ever was heard of.

Many of the Crolians were deluded by the new Favour and Liberty they

receiv'd from the Prince to believe him real, and were glad of the

Mortification of their Brethren; but the more Judicious seeing

plainly the Prince's Design, declar'd against their own Liberty,

because given them by an illegal Authority, without the assent of the

whole Body legally assembled.

When the Solunarians saw this they easily reconcil'd themselves to

the Crolians, at least from the Outside of the Face, for the carrying

on their Design, and so here was a Nation full of Plots, here was the

Prince and his Abrogratzians plotting to introduce their Religion,

here was a parcel of blind short-sighted Crolians plotting to ruin

the Solunarian Establishment, and weakly joining with the

Abrogratzians to satisfy their private Resentments; and here was the

wiser Crolians joining heartily with the Solunarians of all sorts,

laying aside private Resentments, and forgetting old Grudges about

Religion, in order to ruin the invading Projects of the Prince and

his Party.

There was indeed some verbal Conditions past between them, and the

Solunarians willing to bring them into their Party promised them upon

the Faith of their Nation, and the Honour of the Solunarian Religion,

that there should be no more Hatred, Disturbance or Persecution

for the sake of Religion between them, but that they would come to

a Temper with them, and always be Brethren for the future. They

declared that Persecution ran contrary to their Religion in general,

and to their Doctrin in particular; and backt their Allegations with

some Truths they have not since thought fit to like, nor much to

regard.

However by this Artifice, and on these Conditions, they brought the

Crolians to join with them in their Resolutions to countermine their

designing Prince; these indeed were for doing it by the old way

down-right, and to oppose Oppression with Force, a Doctrin they

acknowledg'd, and profest to join with all the Lunar part of Mankind

in the practice, and began to tell their Brethren how they had

impos'd upon themselves and the World, in pretending to absolute

Submission against Nature and universal Lunarian Practice.

But a cunning Fellow personating a Solunarian, and who was in the

Plot, gravely answer'd them thus,

'Look ye, Gentlemen, we own with you that Nature, Reason, Law,

Justice, and Custom of Nations is on your side, and that all Power

Derives from, Centers in, and on all Recesses or Demises of Power

returns to its Great Original the Party Governed: Nay we own our

Great Eye from whom all the habitable Parts of this Globe are

inlightned, has always directed us to practice what Nature thus

dictates, always approv'd and generally succeeded the attempt of

Dethroning Tyrants. But our Case differs, we have always pretended

to this absolute undisputed Obedience, which we did indeed to gain

the Power of your Party; and if we should turn round at once to

your Opinion, tho' never so right, we should so fly in the Face of

our own Doctrin, Sermons, innumerable Pamphlets and Pretensions, as

would give all our Enemies too great a Power over us in Argument,

and we should never be able to look Mankind in the Face: But we

have laid our Measures so that by prompting the King to run upon us

in all sorts of bare-fac'd Extreams and Violences, we shall bring

him to exasperate the whole Nation; then we may underhand foment

the breach on this side, raise the Mob upon him, and by acting on

both sides seem to suffer a Force in falling in with the People,

and preserve our Reputation.

'Thus we shall bring the thing to pass, betray our Prince, take

Arms against his Power, call in Foreign Force to do the Work, and

even then keep our Hands seemingly out of the Broil, by being

pretended Sticklers for our former Prince; so save our Reputation,

and bring all to pass with Ease and Calmness; while the eager Party

of the Abrogratzians will do their own Work by expecting we will do

it for them.

The Crolians astonish'd both at the Policy, the Depth, the Knavery

and the Hypocrisy of the Design, left them to carry it on, owning it

was a Masterpiece of Craft, and so stood still to observe the Issue,

which every way answer'd the exactness of its Contrivance.

When I saw into the bottom of all this Deceit, I began to take up new

Resolutions of returning back into our Old World again, and going

home to England, where tho' I had conceiv'd great Indignation at the

Treatment our Passive Obedience Men gave their Prince here, and was

in hopes in these my remote Travels to have found out some Nations of

Honour and Principles. I was fill'd with Amazement to see our

Moderate Knaves so much out-done, and I was inform'd that all these

things were meer Amusements, Vizors, and Shams, to bring an Innocent

Prince into the Snare.

Would any Mortal imagin who has read this short Part of the Story,

that all this was a Solunarian Church Plot, a meer Conspiracy between

these Gentlemen and the Crolian Dissenters, only to wheedle in the

unhappy Prince to his own Destruction, and bring the popular

Advantage of the Mob, to a greater Ascendant on the Crown.

Of all the Richlieus, Mazarines, Gondamours, Oliver Cromwels, and the

whole Train of Polititians that our World has produc'd, the greatest

of their Arts are Follies to the unfathomable depth of these Lunarian

Policies; and for Wheedle, Lying, Swearing, Preaching, Printing, &c.

what is said in our World by Priests and Polititans, we thank God may

be believ'd; but if ever I believe a Solunarian Priest Preaching

Non-Resistance of Monarchs, or a Solunarian Polititian turning

Abrogratzian, I ought to be mark'd down for a Fool; nor will ever any

Prince in that Country take their Word again, if ever they have their

Senses about 'em, but as this is a most extraordinary Scene, so I

cannot omit a more particular and sufficient Relation of some Parts

of it, than I us'd to give.

The Solunarian Clergy had carry'd on their Non-Resistance Doctrin to

such Extremities, and had given this new Prince such unusual

demonstrations of it, that he fell absolutely into the Snare, and

entirely believ'd them; he had try'd them with such Impositions as

they would never have born from any Prince in the World, nor from him

neither, had they not had a deep Design, and consequently stood in

need of the deepest Disguise imaginable; they had yielded to a

Standing Army, and applauded it as a thing they had desir'd; they had

submitted to levying Taxes upon them by New Methods, and illegal

Practices; they had yielded to the abrogation or suspension at least

of their Laws, when the King's absolute Will requir'd it; not that

they were blind, and did not see what their Prince was doing, but

that the black Design was so deeply laid, they found it was the only

way to ruin him, to push him upon the highest Extreams, and then they

should have their turn serv'd.---- Thus if he desir'd one illegal

Thing of them, they would immediately grant two; one would have

thought they had read our Bible, and the Command, when a Man takes

away the Cloak, to give him the Coat also.

Nor was this enough, but they seem'd willing to admit of the publick

Exercise of the Abrogratzian Religion in all Parts; and when the

Prince set it up in his own Chappel, they suffered it to be set up in

their Cities, and Towns, and the Abrogratzian Clergy began to be seen

up and down in their very Habits; a thing which had never been

permitted before in that Country, and which the Common People began

to be very uneasy at. But still the Solunarian Clergy, and all such

of the Gentry, especially as were in the Plot, by their Sermons,

printed Books, and publick Discourses, carry'd on this high topping

Notion of absolute Submission, so that the People were kept under,

and began to submit to all the impositions of the Prince.

These things were so acted to the Life, that not only the Prince, but

none of his Abrogratzian Counsellors could see the Snare, the Hook

was so finely covered by the Church-Artificers, and the Bait so

delicious, that they all swallow'd it with eagerness and delight.

But the Conspirators willing to make a sure game of it, and not

thinking the King, or all his Counsellors would drive on so fast as

they would have them, tho' they had already made a fair progress for

the Time, resolv'd to play home, and accordingly they persuade their

Prince, that they will not only submit to his Arbitrary Will, in

Matters of State, and Government, but in Matters of Religion; and in

order to carry this Jest on, one of the heads of their Politicks, and

a Person of great Estem for his Abilities in Matters of State, being

without question one of the ablest Heads of all the Solunarian

Nobility, pretended to be converted, and turn'd Abrogratzian. This

immediately took as they desir'd, for the Prince caress'd him, and

entertain'd him with all possible endearments, proferr'd him to

several Posts of Honour and Advantage, always kept him near him,

consulted him in all Emergencies, took him with him to the Abrogian

Sacrifices, and he made no Scruple publickly to appear there, and by

these degrees and a super-achitophalian Hypocrisie, so insinuated

himself into the credulous Prince's favour, that he became his only

Confident, and absolute Master of all his Designs.

Now the Plot had its desir'd effect, for he push'd the King upon all

manner of Precipitations; and if even the Abrogratzians themselves

who were about the King, interpos'd for more temperate Proceedings,

he would call them Cowards, Strangers, ignorant of the Temper of the

Lunarians, who when they were a going, might be driven, but if they

were suffered to cool and consider, would face about and fall off.

Indeed the Men of Prudence and Estates among his own Party, I mean

the Abrogratzians in the Country, frequently warn'd him to take more

moderate Measures, and to proceed with more Caution; told him he

would certainly ruin them all, and himself, and that there must be

some Body about his Majesty that push'd him upon these Extremes, on

purpose to set all the Nation in a Flame, and to overthrow all the

good Designs, which with Temper and good Conduct, might be brought

to perfection.