If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!
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"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old."
"As for yourself, whom I have the honour to know, you are a person of distinction, and would have been an ornament to any court in Europe."
"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."
"I am convinced that if all who are of the same opinion were to meet, the place of meeting would not be large enough to contain them."
"I never saw, hear, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country."
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.
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