... irrelevant, and that it is the humanity inside a creature that is the defining characteristic, and it is only human- kind that can reason. "Upon the whole, the behaviour of these animals was so orderly and rational, so acute and judicious, that I last concluded that they must be magicians" (Page 249, Paragraph 2) In this case, "Houyhnhms" (horses) are completely rational, resulting in ... , by the presence of the cannibals on the island. He describes the natives as "hellish" and "inhuman" due to the fact that they eat other human beings. "Where it is supposed the savage wretches had sat ...

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