Jonathan Swift — "Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he ne…"
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
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"When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric."
"It is an old maxim, that a wise man may change his mind, a fool never."
"When beasts could speak (the learned say They still can do so every day), It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men."
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About Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Anglo-Irish satirist and Dean of Dublin's St Patrick's Cathedral whose Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729) are the canonical English-language satires. Closely associated with Alexander Pope (Scriblerus Club poet and collaborator) and John Gay (Beggar's Opera author and satirical contemporary). For an intellectual contrast, see Daniel Defoe, English Whig journalist and Robinson Crusoe author (1660-1731) — Defoe's Crusoe (1719) celebrates Enlightenment self-reliance and the colonial-mercantile project; Swift's Gulliver (1726) systematically dismantles every form of human pretension Defoe celebrated. The cleanest Augustan Whig-vs-Tory literary pairing — optimistic-empirical vs misanthropic-satirical.