Brobdingnag 7, Useful Learning
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After the king’s words about ears of corn, Gulliver moves on to the learning of this country. His first verdict is short. The learning of this people is very defective.
They know four things only, morality, history, poetry and mathematics. Gulliver admits that in these four they must be allowed to excel.
But their mathematics goes wholly to what is useful in life. It improves farming and helps all the mechanical arts. Among us, he adds, it would therefore be little esteemed.
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