I am going to discuss this assertion with special reference to the way in which the idea of man's rationality is handled. I will divide my discussion into four parts: 1. ... The King's condemning reply to Gulliver, concerning the legislators and laws of England, I think shows and explains a view that is in close relationship to Swift's own personal view at the time he wrote the book. ... This I solemnly declare to be a most infamous falsehood,.. ... And I should be guilty of great ingratitude if I omitted this honourable Mention of Care and Affection towards me, which...
Considering that our focus is going to be the eternal (and its related counterpart the temporal) I am not going to go into great depth on the other three, but, as we shall soon see, the eternal plays a major role in the development of those other distinctions. ... (BE 33) No matter how much I would love to soar in the air like a bird, the very fact that I have a human body that did not come equipped with wings limits me. ... (BE 34) Just as I cannot fly with the bird because of my finite limitations I can imagine that I am flying with the birds. I would say that we have ample evidence to ...