Jonathan Swift — "The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking."
The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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"For what the world calls virtue, is but a compound of vices."
"It is a miserable thing to be a man of sense in a country where the generality of the people are fools."
"The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a torrent of words."
"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."
"It is an old maxim, that a wise man may change his mind, a fool never."
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.