I obtained my first view of a lunar city. It was built around a crater, and the buildings were terraced back from the rim, the terraces being generally devoted to the raising of garden truck and the principal fruit-bearing trees and shrubs.

And books were demanded of them, books on Russia, on sailors, on aeroplanes, on scientists, on metro-workers, on kolkhoz labourers, on women and schoolchildren and parachute heroes.

And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace … the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.]

In return for the sovereign's protection, they compacted to police the content of public literature.