Gulliver's Travels

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The Land of Horses 7, A Nation of Reason

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A dark horse stands among white horses with long manes.
Illustration by J. J. Grandville, Voyages de Gulliver, Paris, Fournier and Furne, 1838Original

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Gulliver lived three years in this country. The reader will expect him, like other travellers, to describe the manners and customs of its people. Learning them was in fact his chief study.

The noble Houyhnhnms are born with a disposition to every virtue. They have no idea at all of what evil in a rational creature might be.

Their great maxim is to cultivate reason and be governed by it entirely.

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