... satirizes the extremes both of reason and of emotion as governing focus in mans nature. What then is man? He is both reason and emotion. Possibly Swift would agree with Alexander Pope about man: Plac?d on this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great: In doubt his Mind and Body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas?ning ... rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl?d; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! (Pope 170) Reason created the Houyhnhnm race from average horses. Lack of that reason t...

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