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The Consolidator - or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Daniel Defoe
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They had three times lost their quallifying Law, and particularly
they observ'd the Grandees were the Men that threw it out, and
notwithstanding the Plot of the Tackers, as they call'd them, who
were as I noted, observ'd to be in Conjunction with the Crolians, yet
the Law always past the Feathers, but still the Grandees quasht it.

To show their Resentment at the Grandees, they had often made
attempts to mortify them, sometimes Arraigning them in general,
sometimes Impeaching private Members of their House, but still all
wou'd not do, the Grandees had the better of them, and going on with
Regularity and Temper, the Consolidators or Feather-Men always had
the worst, the Grandees had the applause of all the Moon, had the
last Blow on every Occasion, and the other sunk in their Reputation
exceedingly.

It is necessary to understand here, that the Men of the Feather serve
in several Capacities, and under several Denominations, and act by
themselves, singly consider'd, they are call'd the Consolidator, and
the Feathers we mention'd abstracted from their Persons, make the
glorious Engine we speak of, and in which, when any suddain Motion
takes them, they can all shut themselves up, and away for the Moon.

But when these are joyn'd with the Grandees, and the Queen, so
United, they make a great Cortez, or general Collection of all the
Governing Authority of the Nation.

When this last Fraction happen'd, the Men of the Feather were under
an exceeding Ferment, they had in some Passion taken into their
Custody, some good Honest Lunar Country-Men, for an Offence, which
indeed few but themselves ever immagin'd was a Crime, for the poor
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