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The Consolidator - or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Daniel Defoe
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them, and that the Actors ought to be made Examples to all the Moon.

The Persons concern'd, us'd all possible Arts to avoid, or at least
to delay the Shame, and adjourn the Punishment, thinking still to
weary the poor Man out.------ But now his Brethren the Crolians began
to see themselves wounded thro' his Sides, and above all, finding his
Innocence clear'd up beyond all manner of dispute, they espous'd his
Cause, and assisted him to prosecute his Enemies, which he did, till
he brought them all to Justice, expos'd them to the last Degree,
obtain'd the reparation of all his Losses, and a publick Decree of
the Judges of his Justification and future Repose.

Indeed when I saw the Proceedings against this poor Man run to a
heighth so extravagant and monstrous, when I found Malice, Forgery,
Subornation, Perjury, and a thousand unjustifiable Things which their
own Sense, if they had any, might ha' been their Protection against,
and which any Child in the Moon might ha' told them must one time or
other come upon the Stage and expose them; I began to think these
People were all in the Crolian Plot too.

For really such Proceedings as these were the greatest pieces of
Service to the Crolians as could possibly be done; for as it
generally proves in other Places as well as in the Moon, that
Mischief unjustly contriv'd falls upon the Head of the Authors, and
redounds to their treble Dishonour, so it was here; the barbarity and
inhumane Treatment of this Man, made the sober and honest Part even
of the Solanarians themselves blush for their Brethren, and own that
the Punishment awarded on them was just.

Thus the Crolians got ground by the Folly and Madness of their
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