Nature of English Ladies and Gentlemen
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"By what I gave gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pain wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." .....King of Brobdingnag, Chapter 6, last sentence The above totally unwarranted insult upon the nature of man was made by wise and kind King of Bromdingnag to Gulliver after Gulliver had just spent days extolling the virtues of merry-old, 1700 England to the king. In the first two paragraphs of the next chapter, Lemuel sincerely apologizes for the King's rudeness and obvious misinterpretation of the story, though he admits he did indeed stretch the truth and exaggerated good points and skipped over bad impressions of his Motherland as any good citizen would do to advance the cause of truth and patriotic respect for one's country. But alas, the King, who lives in isolation is not privy to the customs of Europe, and, by his ignorance, therefore produces, in Gulliver's words; "many prejudices and a certain narrowness of thinking, from which we and the other politer nations of Europe are wholly exempted" ..... Lemuel Gulliver, Chapter 7, page 1 |