that were in the right Method of concluding this unhappy Broil, and
for that Reason, were the most unlikely to succeed.

But the Wildest Notion of all, was, when some of the Grandees made a
grave Address to the Queen of the Country, to desire the Northern Men
to settle Matters first, and to tell them, that when that was done,
they should see what these would do for them. This was a home Stroke,
if it had but hit, and the Misfortune only lay in this, That the
Northern Men were not Fools enough; the clearness of the Air in those
cold Climates generally clearing the Head so early, that those People
see much farther into a Mill-stone than any Blind Man in all the
Southern Nations of the Moon.

There was an another unhappiness in this Case, which made the Matter
yet more confus'd, and that was, that the Souldiers had generally no
gust to this War.--- This was an odd Case; for those sort of
Gentlemen, especially in the World in the Moon, don't use to enquire
into the Justice of the Case they Fight for, but they reckon 'tis
their Business to go where they are sent, and kill any Body they are
order'd to kill, leaving their Governors to answer for the Justice of
it; but there was another Reason to be given why the Men of the Sword
were so averse, and always talk't coldly of the fighting Part, and
tho' the Northern Men call'd it fear, yet I cannot joyn with them in
that, for to fear requires Thinking; and some of our Solunarians are
absolutely protected from the first, because they never meddle with
the last, except when they come to the Engine, and therefore 'tis
plain it could not proceed from Fear.

It has puzzl'd the most discerning Heads of the Age, to give a Reason
from whence this Aversion proceeded, and various Judgments have been