A limited perspective blinds you to the consequences of your acts elsewhere. For some, ignorance is a blessing. God hides the future, but gives hope. Our greatest error is Pride. V. Pride believes that Nature was created only to make us happy.
Reason distinguishes man from animals.
The chain of being extends from Nothing to the Infinite. Not one link must be broken. Swift invokes a definition which he knows the Irish reader will accept, viz. that it is the nature of men to love their children. He introduces an implicit minor premise, viz. that the Irish are not to be regarded as men. Nobody in Ireland will object to the butchering of children for the table.