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The Consolidator - or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Daniel Defoe
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Establisht themselves so, that when I came away, they were become a
most Solid, and well United Body, made a considerable Figure in the
Nation, and yet the Government was easy; for the Solunarians found
when they had attain'd the utmost end of their Wishes, her Solunarian
Majesty was as safe as before, and the Crolians Property being
secur'd, they were as Loyal Subjects as the Solunarians, as
consistent with Monarchy, as useful to it, and as pleas'd with it.

I cannot but Remark here, that this Union of the Crolians among
themselves had another Consequence, which made it appear it was not
only to their own Advantage, but to the general Good of all the
Natien.

For, by little, and little, the Feuds of the Parties cool'd, and the
Solunarians began to be better reconcil'd to them; the Government was
easy and safe, and the private Quarrels, as I have been told since,
begin to be quite forgot.

What Blindness, said I to my self, has possest the Dissenters in our
unhappy Country of England, where by eternal Discords, Feuds,
Distrusts and Disgusts among themselves, they always fill their
Enemies with Hopes, that by pushing at them, they may one time or
other compleat their Ruin; which Expectation has always serv'd as a
means to keep open the Quarrel; whereas had the Dissenters been
United in Interest, Affection and Mannagement among themselves, all
this Heat had long ago been over, and the Nation, tho' there had been
two Opinions had retain'd but one Interest, been joyn'd in Affection,
and Peace at Home been rais'd up to that Degree that all Wise Men
wish, as it is now among the Inhabitants of the World in the Moon.

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