The man's ideal, though sick and unheard of this time and day, probably made a lot more sense back in the seventeen hundreds. This story or proposal was appalling. That this man having children would still conceder going thru with this. The speaker is arguing for his country, so he thinks. I guess he's tired of the famine, and he's tired of all the women on the street with six kids behind them begging for food or scraps. " And therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these children sound, useful members of the common wealth would deserve so well of the public as to have his statue set up for the preserver of the nation." With the man stating this, I believe that he thought that selling these year old baby was so good that he would deserve a statue.
As he put up a really good argument, which might have went over well back in those day with the famine and other horrid condition that these people was living in. Which would be a good ideal if it wasn't for the fact that he was talking about little children. It sound like he thought this out and was actually trying to make a plan to help his family and the rest of the country come out of this dearth lifestyle. The part of which he says " so much wanted among us by the great destruction of pigs, to frequent at our table, which are no way comparable in taste or magnificence to a well-grown, fat yearling child, which roasted whole will make a considerable figure at a lord mayor's feast or any other public entertainment." After reading this it palpable that this man has eaten a few children in his life time.
