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1. As these noble Houyhnhnms are endowed by nature with a general disposition to all virtues, and have no conceptions or ideas of what is evil in a rational creature so their grand maxim is to cultivate reason, and to be wholly governed by it.
2. I owned that the Houyhnhnms among us, whom we called horses, were the most generous and comely animals we had that they excelled in strength and swiftness and when they belonged to persons of quality, were employed in traveling, racing, or drawing chariots they were treated with much kindness and care, till they fell into diseases, or became foundered in the feet and then they were sold, and used to all kind of drudgery till they died after which their skins were stripped, and sold for what they were worth, and their bodies left to be devoured by dogs and birds of prey.
3. So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness in false or dubious propositions are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms.
4. He agreed and I went on by assuring him that the ship was made by creatures like myself, who, in all the countries I had traveled, as well as in my own, were the only governing, rational animals and that upon my arrival hither I was as much astonished to see the Houyhnhnms act like rational beings, as he or his friends could be in finding some marks of reason in a creature he was pleased to call a yahoo, to which I owned my resemblance in every part, but could not account for their degenerate and brutal nature.
5. But the veiled significance is unmistakably there, for the voyage to Lilliput is merely a revelation of the policy of the English court during the reign of George I the trip to Brobdingnag affords opportunity for picturing an ideal ruler and government the journey to Laputa holds up to contumely the proceedings of the British Royal Society, while the visit to the Houyhnhnms is a rabid satire against humanity.
6. I had not been a year in this country before I contracted such a love and veneration for the inhabitants, that I entered on a firm resolution never to return to human kind, but to pass the rest of my life among these admirable Houyhnhnms, in the contemplation and practice of every virtue where I could have no example or incitement to vice.
7. He made me observe, that among the Houyhnhnms, the white, the sorrel, and the iron-gray were not so exactly shaped as the bay, the dapple-gray, and the black nor born with equal talents of the mind, or a capacity to improve them and therefore continued always in the condition of servants, without ever aspiring to match out of their own race, which in that country would be reckoned monstrous and unnatural.
8. Friendship and benevolence are the two principal virtues among the Houyhnhnms and these not confined to particular objects, but universal to the whole race.
9. The Houyhnhnms who came to visit my master out of a design of seeing and talking with me, could hardly believe me to be a right yahoo, because my body had a different covering from others of my kind.
10. He asked me who made the ship, and how it was possible that the Houyhnhnms of my country would leave it to the management of brutes.