Swift, Gulliver, and Human Nature

I have some Time since, with a World of Pains and Art, dissected the Carcass of Human Nature, and read many useful Lectures upon the several Parts … till at last it smelt so strong, I could preserve it no longer. The objects of Swift’s satire in Gulliver’s Travels are numerous and disparate, ranging from the follies of natural philosophers to the varieties of human pride, English politics under Queen Anne and King George, Walpole and ministerial government, and of course the genre of travel w..