In Book Four of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the protagonist Gulliver goes to visit a strange land in which the ruling class is composed of a race of intelligent horse-like beings, known as Houyhnhnms. The casual reader of Swift, who has approached Gulliver’s Travels under the assumption that it is nothing more than a children’s book, will doubtless view this as an amusing episode of fantasy, and read nothing more into …showed first 75 words of 2770 total…

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