For ages untold11, our race have waited in patient expectation for the morning’s dawn when they could salute12 yours face to face, and impart to you a source of happiness that in life realizes communion with immortality13. To us has been vouchsafed15 this coveted16 privilege, and it shall be our study to improve it to your advantage. Notwithstanding the malapropos accident—casting upon Correliana an arch glance that wrought17 for her face a scarlet18 veil—of yesterday, which detracted from the dignity of an introduction so important to the regenerative welfare of your 130race, we were glad that auspicious19 mirth was the trophy20 of the occasion, rather than tears of grief, of which we shall be mindful in adjudging our censure21 to the cause. Joyous22 mirth we have esteemed23 an evidence of goodness, for it declares itself beyond the reach of selfish impediment that breeds evil intention; even when the foibles of our kind become the subjects of humorous provocation24. Mirth is ill timed, when preconcerted with a knowledge that a portion of those present will be unable to appreciate the humorous incentive26; as it opens wide the door of suspicion with your peoples, who have been educated under the partial sway of national habits and customs. Dissimilarity in habits and customs, under national patronage27, begets28 from seeming incongruity29 a disposition30 to gibe31 with missile retorts, fledged and tipped with ironical32 sarcasms33, as rankling34 in effect as the pointed35 weapons in the mouth of Mr. Welson’s knighted chief. To be frank, if the ludicrous scene of yesterday had occurred with matured acquaintance, I should not have spared the demure36, but conscious blushes of the fair medium. Our first acquaintance with you, although not mutual37 in personal recognition, is of older date than yesterday, and upon it has been founded our predilections38, which in train have led to the many concurrent39 circumstances favoring the happy issue of our more direct scheme, devised for the liberation of your race from the pampering40 trammels of instinct. It would have been quite easy for our first giantescoes to have obtained an introduction to your race, if they had emulated41 the desire of being exhibited as an iotian monstrosity for the gratification of giga greed and curiosity. But fortunately for our present hoped-for issue, our system of education, devised for the development of affectionate confidence, encouraged the past generations of our race to wait for an opening free from the entailment43 of experimental disadvantage. A knowledge of our race 131for the gratification of your scientific savants curiosity, would have been as profitless for good, as their sight-seeing acquaintance with the moon and stars. Our Manatitlan sages44 have from the earliest period recommended extreme caution to prevent the premature45 introduction of our race to yours. The favorable indications to be watched for in premonition of a successful issue were those of extreme folly46, heralding47 a closing cycle; for the contrast afforded by the result of our happy example would attract kindly48 imitation of those inclined to affectionate goodness.
Desideratus, one of our most approved prognosticators, deposed49 that the affections of woman afford the best test of a closing giga cycle. When frivolity50 and the gossiping comparisons of vanity gain the ascendency over natural affection, inherent as the birthright of woman, then you may know that the symbolic51 serpent’s tail has received its final circle inclination52 for union with the mouth. This inclination was foreshadowed in the eighteenth century, with invention of power looms53; which with the largely increased acceleration54 of steam, fabricated in excess of the world’s actual requirements for healthy protection and comely55 adornment56. With steam as an inductive aid to civilized57 progression, the Eugenic58 era was ushered59 in, when the frail60 mortal tenements61 of women became subject to empirical vanity, and in rivalry62, the standard-bearers for cumbersome63 mechanical products, to the utter perversion64 of healthy elasticity65, comfort, and their special vocation25 of fostering for immortality affectionate goodness. This dereliction of giga women from their manifest duty, has brought in train domestic and dynastic miseries66, while from dreary67 self conviction their hopeless prospect68 closes with the grave. As we have now adventured the only opportunity that has ever occurred, with a prospect of success, for extending the influence of our happy experience to your race, we will with 132our introduction premise71 a description of Our Country.
Manatitla is situated72 in the Andean district of La Plata, with a southern aspect. It occupies a space between the parallels of 20° 40? and 30° south latitude73 and 40° 50° west longitude74, embracing an area of forty square furlongs, of Manatitlan measurement. Its surface is diversified75, combining in well-defined variety mountains, hills, and vales, with their concomitant streams, lakes, and brooks76; affording with arable77 advantages, prospects78 unrivaled in beauty, which have been enhanced by the grateful labor79 of its inhabitants in acknowledgment for the benefits bestowed80. The climate is salubrious and free from the extremes of heat and cold, having a valley altitude varying but little from six thousand feet above the estuary81 of the La Plata. The adjacent country is occupied by the giga and animalculan wild hordes82. The Minim is the largest river. Its source is derived83 from Lake Areta, located in the Andean spur of Ultisimma; flowing in a northeasterly direction it finally becomes tributary84 to the Vermejo. On the northwestern bank is situated our chief city, Manicul?. Forty of our miles below, on the same bank, is situated the City of Iota85, containing twenty thousand inhabitants. Nearly opposite the last named city, is the town of Speck86, its inhabitants, in transition, being chiefly occupied in the manufacture of auro-silicate for edificial construction and textile fabrics88, rendering89 them indestructible and repulsive90 to cumulative91 adhesion. The entire population of Manatitla is estimated at eighteen millions, with a healthy tendency to a continued rapid decrease in number, from causes which will be described hereafter.
The Traditional History of Manatitla, is coeval92 with the imaginary date of Mauna Che’s advent69 as a deity93 from the La Plata into Alta Peru, reaching in your time measurement to eleven thousand years, 133which probably embraces relics94 of truth, among others a like origin with the Heracleans; as we are without doubt descended95 from castaway parasites96 of gigas from the eastern continent. But as it is a constant repetition of acts of oppression, in kind with your classical written history, we will not shock you with their rehearsal97.
The Actual, or Written History of Manatitla, was commenced in the latter portion of the reign98 of King Primus, from which dates our transition period, or emancipation99 of our people from the instinctive100 rule of the stomach and its engendered101 lusts102. But from its resemblance in factional disruptions to your own, culminating in a parallel to their cycle condition, we will only allude105 to the causes that immediately preceded, and in tendency wrought the changes that finally effected partition from old habits, and the reverenced107 usages of instinct. Arbitrary, religious, and civil exactions, seconded by compulsory108 persuasion109 against all nonconformists, signalized the tendencies of the period, and gave birth to an ultra instinctive race, styled liberal democrats110, who claimed the inalienable right of suffragian equality bestowed upon the lower orders of the animal creation, in the exercise of their untrammeled state of field and forest freedom. The regular national church, and king, persecuted111 the nonconformists and schismatics with dire7 vengeance112, under the patronage of godhead personification, translating the living heretics with tortures, burnings, and repetitions of drowning suffocations by resuscitations from a moribund113 state, and like admonitory chastenings in transition for the final judgment114 of their long enduring and merciful godhead. The persecuted schismatics emigrated to distant lands, in order that they might worship their God of reformation in freedom from invidious restriction115 of rites116. When located, they in turn used the same strenuous117 arguments to subvert118 the tribal119 134forms of worship. Gaining the ascendency, with destructive agents, they deprived the aboriginals120 of local option, forcing them to conform, with death and displacement121, until they had obliged the remnant descendants of their benefactors122 to accept a conditional123 exile on the outskirts124 of progressive civilization, in transit87 for a grave ultimatum125. The notable invention of letters signalized the latter portion of the reign of Primus, and to it he laid claim as king rief discoverer; which in the law of entail42 declares the subject a utensil126 to be used for the exaltation of kingly prerogative127; being identified with everything that pertains128 to the glory of the throne and its legitimate129 scionry, his assumptive appropriation130 was sustained with ministerial affidavits131 and legal opinions, in attestation132 of King Primus’s great literary and inventive capacity, allied133 to clemency134, justice, and generosity135. But after his death, there was found concealed136 in the hut of a bard137, who had disappeared just anterior138 to the announcement of the king’s invention, parchments inscribed139 with the newly introduced characters, which set forth140 the bard’s adverse141 claims in these terms:—
With symbolic signs, I have found,
The art of representing sound.
On distant business one can send,
Or with them greet a distant friend.
From this scrap142 of post circumstantial testimony143, it is evident that he either intended to filch144 from the king, or that the king did obtain his reputation for literary invention from the fior’s or bard’s genius. The latter presumption145 receives probable confirmation146 from our aura-mention of similar pretentions to authorship advanced by giga potentates147 of the past and present age.
The rule of King Primus was of the most despotic description ever enforced by an arbitrary will over the weak subserviency148 of plodding149 human instinct, 135which in kindred affinity150 with the dogs, is content to give vent1 to a growling151 yelp152 when the freedom of its tail is ground by the heel of the oppressor. Whenever these constitutional growls153 foreboded an insurrectionary show of teeth, the gregarious154 spirit of commune revolt was allayed155 by the grant of a new charter of rights, but if this precedental sop156 failed to lay the retaliative157 spirit engendered by oppression, the current of their wrath158 was turned against their neighbors, with arbitrary conjurations as the provocations159, of war. As an infallible test of his infallibility death displaced him to make room for a successor. The people put on sackcloth, and rolled in the dust of humiliation160, in mournful semblance104 of grief for the loss of their demi-god, whose dealings had been grievous and past finding out.
After public eulogistic161 exaltations, funereal162 orations163 and lamentations had subsided164, his only son was proclaimed successor with jubilant rejoicings. But Justinatus, the son, resolutely165 announced his determination to reject the succession, recommending the people to select from the wise men of the nation a council to decide upon a form of government best suited in adaptation for the requirements of the people; but they with their faces and thoughts turned to the rear, in reverence106 for past usage, clamored for a king. But they found in Justinatus a man as determined166 for the enforcement of right, as his father had been for wrong. He commanded them to turn their faces to the future, and act according to his direction, not for themselves or their generation alone, but for those who were to succeed them. Submissive to the letter of his direction, but in conformity167 with precedental creed168, they elected eight men by ballot169, and instructed them to proclaim Justinatus king. With this evidence of their precedental stupidity he assumed the power of directing them for their own good, selecting four men of as well approved wisdom as his judgment 136could discover, he placed at their head his early instructor170 as chief advisor171, with the titled designation of Dosch. After this inauguration172 of an advisorial system, Justinatus, as a pupil, received from them instruction; combining, with his advance in knowledge, his aid in promoting the practical development of means for insuring equality in thought and judgment, necessary for the promotion173 of the common welfare.
In consideration of the fluctuating variations incident to common usage, their first endeavors were directed for the devisement of a method that would insure exampled conformity in act. The difficulty of effecting uniform compatibility, in the then present habits of the people, soon became apparent. As a dernier of preparation, a division of labor was enforced, according with the personal healthy capacity of each individual. Under this system of equalized industry for community support, the drones were soon discovered, and subjected to the taskmaster supervision174 of those capable of exercising self control for the common good. Of course the outcry of slavery and oppression became rampant175 with the ill disposed and vicious; but compelled association with the good soon wrought a happy change; but not before many revolutionary schemes of revolt had been planned by the democratic majority, and nipped in the bud. The great bar to the full success of the renovating176 process, was the all absorbing lust103 for selfish gratification, procured177 from the sacrifice of others’ welfare. Exhortations178 and demonstrations180 of the evil effects and instability of pleasures having a material dependency upon the appetites and passions of the body were of no avail. Stimulating181 provocations, for the production of inordinate182 appetites, had held an increasing sway from time immemorial, and the infatuation still continued to subvert the efforts of the Doschate of advisors183 for the establishment of a 137rational source of happiness, that should extend its blessings184 for the reciprocal appreciation185 of all. Laws and penal186 restrictions187 proved of easy evasion188, and the local option of individuals native to Manatitla, having a desire to establish in perpetuity the happiness of their people, as a beacon189 light of example, were openly defied by aliens. To restrict emigration, which was claimed as a privileged right ordained190 as an inherent instinct of animality, they did not dare! as it was declared by the majority an assumption that would directly controvert191 the rights of septs and nationalities guaranteed by deity. The civilized progenitors192 of the races represented by tribes and small nationalities occupying the country adjacent to Manatitla, had undoubtedly193 been parasitical194 attaches to giga castaways like those of the Manatitlans. This stumbling block of perversion, continued from generation to generation for centuries; until the advent of the Dosch Desiderata, who with the aid of his advisors, turned the tide anarchy195 by the adoption196 of foreigners as guests, withholding197 the privilege of citizenship198 for bestowal199 upon their children’s children of the third generation. This inaugurated an era memorable200 for the change of precedental precept201, based upon warlike achievements, into a source of abhorrence202 with the increasing minority. Thoughtful consideration bestowed upon example for the transmitted improvement of future generations in goodness, produced a wonderful effect upon the actors of the then present generation by the induction203 of harmony from reciprocal goodwill204. Through his wise deductions205, that clearly demonstrated the necessity of self government in association with others, woman threw off her shroud206 of vanity, and labored207 earnestly for the renewal208 of her lost prestige of trust, bestowed for the transmission of purity and goodness. The incipient209 struggles of the minority, under the direction of Desiderata, were short and decisive; but for the time being evoked210 138with groveling bitterness fierce invective211 from the majority. A memorial address of remonstrance212, from the democratic majority, against the abrogation213 of the rights of citizenship, in the first and second degree of alien residence, set forth, that God had created all men free and equal without respect to color or habits, with the command that they should work out their own way of salvation214, and that each individual was guaranteed an inalienable right to participate in the government of his fellow man. “And that, whereas, as hereinafter stated,” the citizens of Manatitla represent different nationalities, it was but just and right that they should have a voice in the council of advisors, in order that they might guard and protect their own liberties and safety. With this preamble215, imitated from giga precept, the contest can be realized without repeating the stale platitudes216 of democratic subterfuge217. The promulgated218 reply was as follows:——
“The Dosch of Manatitla and his advisors, to the alien guests (heretofore, in acceptation, adopted citizens) of their people and country, greeting! We have received your petition, and have reviewed with care the requests you have proffered219. Our answer is set forth in the subjoined proclamation.
“‘To the residents of Manatitla of foreign birth! As it is our matured desire to emancipate220 the people native to our country from their own degrading habits, and the deleterious example of those derived from extraneous221 source, we herewith announce the corrective enactments222 we have devised for the collective well being and happiness of all within our advisorial control. As it is manifest, from the conclusive223 evidence of creative design, that mankind are in bodily and functional224 alliance with all the different grades of animality, through the representative agency of omnivorous225 instinct; it is also as clearly evident that his endowed superiority resides in his privileged capacity 139for self control, with an ultimate intention equally apparent. For a rational realization226 of this saving clause, an easy estimate can be made of all the tangible227 sources of happiness held by human kind independent of the body’s instincts. As upon these depend our hopes of happiness in life, in premonition of immortality, it is imperative228 with all to hold them in reciprocal cultivation229 for the confluent control—in subjection—of the passions inherent with the vital functions of animality. As woman, the endowed source and mother of our race, when free from the attaint of man’s selfish invention, expresses a natural repugnance231 to everything opposed to purity and goodness, and in the full fruition of her endowment is reverenced as the germ ideal of immortality; we have through her a direct indication of the immortal14 source of happiness bestowed with creative intention for the local option of mankind. In negative assurance, that purity and goodness is the endowed source of happiness; woman when lost to their sustenance232, becomes hopelessly degraded, sinking with loathsome233 taint230 below the vilest234 brute235, and utterly236 lost to the instinctive ties of affection, will not hesitate to sacrifice mother, husband, sister, and child to the poisonous lust of her reptile237 selfishness.
“‘That the cause of this ferocious238 degeneration, which has the power of transforming woman from the glorious ideal of immortality, into an object too repulsive for her destroyer to find in his vocabulary words of beastly vulgarity sufficiently239 strong in the odor of putrefactive designation for expressing in comparison the foulness240 of his scorn, is derived from man’s insatiate devisement, cannot be denied! For the exampled amendment241 of this woful cause of degeneration, we have provided family censors243, and nurses, in sufficient number for present requirement, whose duty it will be to hold in check parental244 indiscretions, and mutations incited245 from the instinctive variations of fondness 140and petulance246. With the close of the second year, the provisorial charge of the family censor242 and nurse will be transferred with the infant to the national school of the department in which they reside, their guardian247 duties continuing until the seventh year, at the commencement of which the child is matriculated as a pupil, with full scholastic248 adoption by the censors and teachers. For the additional furtherance of our system, subserving for the vindication249 of creative indications for the elimination250 of our immortal endowment, we have separated the sexes that in the process of educational attainment251 they may remain free from the natural temptations inherent with instinct.
“‘The benefits conferred by our national system of education you have realized in the peaceful confidence and unity70 imparted in after association; also the sequent inseparable unity of our marriage conjunctions. In truth, they are happily too apparent to be gainsaid252. So that in accepting our hospitality as guests, you cannot avoid, in courtesy, a willing recognition of our rights of freehold pre?mption, for preserving our habits and customs of purity and goodness, intact from the infringements253 of foreign attaint; or question the justice of our privilege of enforcing their observance; or in default, question our corrective enactments devised for the culprit’s realization of practical liabilities incurred254 by the transgressor255. These will be strictly256 enforced. But that there may be no cavilings, with the hue257 and cry of barbarous excess in punishment, we have provided accommodations adapted to the specie degradation258 of the lower orders of animal instinct, of sufficient capacity for associate occupation by human emulators of bestiality in kind; through all the gradations from the omnium gatherum ‘swine,’ blood thirsty ‘tiger,’ down to the reptile conservators of poison. For the correction of women who have lapsed9 from their vocation of conservators 141of purity and goodness, into the incipient stages of gadding259 and gossiping detraction260, we have provided cage apartments for their mutual accommodation with birds representing their kind, in the hopping261 vent of thoughtless words. We have provided for initiatory262 correction pavonias (animalculan peacocks) for the exemplar admonition of the vain-glorious; and jab-boracidas (jackdaws and magpies) for the likeness263 of gossipping repeaters; for the loud mouthed and strepitant clackitas (parrots and cockatoos), and for the ‘fashionable’ imitators, simia curios (female monkeys). These, as occasion may require, will extend invitations to their ‘likes’ of the human sex to attend their levées, which will be subject to the auditorial264 outside inspection265 of the public, if morbid266 curiosity should prompt witnesses to the ordeal267 of misery268. These provisos and corrective conceptions have been devised for, and proved to be of universal benefit, with the evidence of well attested269 experience; and we desire your co?peration, as guests, for the perfection of our system designed for the advancement270 of purity and goodness. But shall strenuously271 insist that your children shall become participants in the privileges conferred by our system of education.’”
As you will readily conceive, this proclamation of Desiderata and his associates caused the fulmination of bitter invectives and threats of vengeance, which served to vindicate272 the wisdom of the predicated precautions. But the writers of the period state that in a few generations the influence for good extended to savage273 tribes, who petitioned for admission of their children into our national schools. The improvement was so marked in its demonstration179 of a realizing source of happiness, that but three centuries elapsed from the period of organization, before the foreign nationalities were peacefully absorbed, their subjects becoming educated citizens of Manatitla.
With the illustrative sketch274 that I have given of 142Manatitla’s transition period of extension, you, and the readers of the historiographer’s transcript275, will readily understand the inceptive source and stages that premised the establishment of our practical system of education. But owing to the limited number of words and terms for the expression of purity and goodness, with their practical variations, in your languages, we are of necessity obliged to use them in frequent repetition.
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236 utterly | |
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240 foulness | |
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241 amendment | |
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242 censor | |
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249 vindication | |
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250 elimination | |
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251 attainment | |
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256 strictly | |
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257 hue | |
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258 degradation | |
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260 detraction | |
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261 hopping | |
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262 initiatory | |
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263 likeness | |
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