... much of the debate was based on the correct way to break down which end of the egg was the smaller size. Furthermore, Swift mocks visionless dedication. Gulliver, leaving the Houyhnhnms, says that he "took a second leave of my master, but as I was going to prostrate myself to kiss his hoof, he did me the honor to raise it gently to ... my mouth." (Swift 326) Swift was certainly so detailed as a satirist that most of his early readers misjudge the section on the Houyhnhnms. They were so hooked on the reason that they did not understand that Swift was changing a virtue into an immorality....

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