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Gulliver's Travels / Eccentric Ambitions

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: human folly, enlightenment, nature of knowledge, ambition, absurdity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-27

Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect...
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Gulliver's Travels / Critique of Humanity

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: human folly, authorship, public discourse, distortion, enlightenment  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-23

And it must be owned, that seven months were a sufficient time to correct every vice and folly to which _Yahoos_ are subject, if their natures had bee...