they needs must know would meet with immediate opposition, things
that they knew all the Honest Men, all the Grandees, all the
Patriarchs, and almost all the Feathers would oppose.

From hence all the Men of any fore-sight brought it to this pass, as
is before Noted, that either these One Hundred and Thirty Four were
Fools or Mad-Men, or that it was a Phanatick Crolian Plot and
Conspiracy to Ruin the makeing this Law, which the rest of the
Solunarian Church Men were very forward to carry on.

I heard indeed some Men Argue that this could not be, the breach was
too wide between the Crolians and these Gentlemen ever to come to
such an Agreement; but the Wiser Heads who argu'd the other way,
always brought them, as is noted above, to this pinch of Argument;
that either it must be so, be a Fanatick Crolian Plot, or else the
Men of Fury were all Fools, Madmen, and fitter for an Hospital, than
a State-House, or a Pulpit.

It must be allow'd, these Crolians were Cunning People, thus to
wheedle in these High Flying Solunarians to break the Neck of their
dear Project.

But upon the whole, for ought I cou'd see, whether it went one way or
t'other, all the Nation esteem'd the other People Fools ------ Fools
of the most extraordinary Size in all the Moon, for either way they
pull'd down what they had been many Years a Building.

I cannot say that this was in kindness to the Crolians, but in meer
Malice to the Low Solunarian Party, who had the Government in their
Hands, for Malice always carries Men on to monstrous Extremes.