Three-act philosophical comedy influenced by Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)
On the fantastic Isle of Reason, a man's height is commensurate with his rationality. When eight Europeans, each representative of a character type or profession, are shipwrecked on the island, they find themselves reduced to Lilliputians in comparison with the islanders. Aiming to enlarge the Europeans, the natives try to detach them from their customary prejudices and modes, and they succeed with six of the group; the Poet and the Philosopher prove to be incorrigible. The play ends with all rejoicing over the triumph of reason.