Earth. Those that you contain. Did you not say you were inhabited?
Moon. Yes, what then?
Earth. Does it not follow that all your inhabitants are animals?
Moon. Neither animals nor men, though I am really in ignorance as to the nature of either the one or the other. As for the men you speak of, I have not an idea what you mean.
Earth. Then what sort of creatures are yours?
Moon. They are of very many different kinds, as unknown to you, as yours are to me.
Earth. This is so strange that if you yourself had not informed me of it, I would never have believed it. Were you ever conquered by any of your inhabitants?
Moon. Not that I know of. But how? And for what reason?
Earth. Through ambition and jealousy; by means of diplomacy and arms.