farther Progress of this most refin'd piece of Cunning, among the
very great Ones, Grandees, Feathers, and Consolidators of the
Country. For these Cunning Crolians manag'd their Intriegues so
nicely, that they brought about a Famous Division even among the High
Solunarian Party themselves; and whereas the Law of Qualification was
reviv'd again, and in great Danger of being compleated; these subtle
Crolians brought over One Hundred and Thirty Four of the Feathers in
the Famous Consolidator to be of their side, and to Contrive the
utter Destruction of it; and thus fell the Design which the High
Solunarian Church Men had laid for the Ruin of the Crolians Interest,
by their own Friends first joyning in all the Extremes they had
proposed, and then pushing it so much farther, and to such mad
Periods that the very highest of them stood amaz'd at the Design,
startled, flew back and made a full stop; they were willing to Ruin
the Crolians, but they were not willing to Ruin the whole Nation. The
more these Men began to consider, the more furiously these Plotters
carry'd on their Extravagances; at last they made a General push at a
thing in which they knew if the other High Men joyn'd, they must
throw all into Confusion, bring a Foreign Enemy on their Backs,
unravel all the Thread of the War, fight all their Victories back
again, and involve the whole Nation in Blood and Confusion.

They knew well enough that most of the High Men would hesitate at
this, they knew if they did not the Grandees and Patriarchs would
reject it, and so they plaid the surest Game to blast and overthrow
this Law, that could possibly be plaid.

If any Man, in the whole World in the Moon, will pretend this was not
a Plot, a Crolian Design, a meer Conspiracy to destroy the Law, let
him tell me for what other end could these Men offer such extreams as