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language, which has no terms to express anything that is evil, except those whereby they describe the detestable qualities of their Yahoos, among which they were not able to distinguish this of pride, for want of thoroughly understanding human nature, as it shows itself in other countries where that animal presides. But I, who had more experience, could plainly observe some rudiments of it among the wild Yahoos.

But the Houyhnhnms, who live under the government of reason, are no more proud of the good qualities they possess, than I should be for not wanting a leg or an arm; which no man in his wits would boast of, although he must be miserable without them. I dwell the longer upon this subject from the desire I have to make the society of an English Yahoo by any means not insupportable; and therefore I here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice, that they will not presume to come in my sight.

Endnotes

A stang is a pole or perch; sixteen feet and a half. ↩

An act of parliament has been since passed by which some breaches of trust have been made capital. ↩

Britannia. —⁠Sir W. Scott ↩

London. —⁠Sir W. Scott ↩

This is the revised text adopted by Dr. Hawksworth (1766). The above paragraph in the original editions (1726) takes another form, commencing:⁠—“I told him that should I happen to live in a kingdom where lots were in vogue,” etc. The names Tribnia and Langdon are not mentioned, and the “close stool” and its signification do not occur. ↩

This paragraph is not in the original editions. ↩

The original editions and Hawksworth’s have Rotherhith here, though earlier in the work, Redriff is said to have been Gulliver’s home in England. ↩

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