The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

to cure this natural antipathy which every creature discovers against you, nor, con sequently, how you can tame them and make them serviceable. However, I will debate ths matter no further because I am desirous of hearing from you further regarding this strange country where the Yahoos rule"
 These converse tions between Gulliver and him extended over many days and weeks. Gullver laid before him the whole state of Europe as best he could. He discoursed of trade and manufac- lures, of art and science. That thing which you call war" said the Grey one day. does indeed discover the most admirable defects of that reason to | which you pretend. Whoever under stands the nature of Yahoos may easily believe 1t possible for such an animal to be guilty of every action which you have named if heir strength and cunning equaled their malice. Your dis course has given me an increased ab
 horence of the whole species and caused in me a disturbance of mind to which l I was before stranger.
 | Though I hate the Yahoos of this country, yet I have never blamed them for their odious qualities any more than 1 would a bird of prey for its cruelty, or a sharp stone for cutting my hoofs. But when a creature pre- tending to reason can be guilty of such enormities as you have described in that which you call war law. govern ment and social relations, then I dread lest the corruption of the reasoning faculty may be worse than brutality itself. But I am confident that in- stead of reason the Yahoos of your country only possess some quality fitted to increase your natural vices. as the reflection from troubled stream re- turns the image of an i'll shaped body not only larger but more distorted"
 For three years Gulliver lived with his master. the Grey in the land of the Houyhnhnms and came more and more to admire their virtues and in- tclligence and to have less and less desire to return to a land which he now regarded as ruled and peopled by Yahoos. He found the noble Honyhn- hnms endowed by nature with a general disposition to virtue and reason and to have no conception of ideas or evil in rational creature. Friendship and benevolence with them was common virtues, not confined to particular in- dividuals, but universal in the race. Temperance, industry, exercise and clea anliness are the lessons equally en- joined upon the young of both sexes, and Gulivers master, when Gulliver described the education of the young in England, declared that it was mon males and females except in some matters of domestic mana agement. Why" said he, "one-half of your people must be it for nothing but to bring children into the world and to trust the management of children to snch useless animals is another in stance of your brutality"
 It was with extreme difficulty that Gull liver could make his master understand the meaning of the word opinion" or how point could be dsputable; because req son taught us to affirm or deny only where we were certain, and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either So that wranglings, controversies, disputes and | poSltlVeneSS Tn false or dubious prDpoSi- tions are evils unknown among the | Houyhnhnms 1 The Houyhnhnms have nothing that could really be called government, their virtues rendering such a system unneces-
 sary But every fourth year, at the time
 of the vernal equinox, there is held
 representative council of the whole na-
 tion. It meets upon a great plain and
 lasts for five or six days Here they n-
 quire into the state or condition of the several districts: Whether they abound
 in sufficient fodder or are deficient in hay.
 oats, cows or Yahoos. And when there
 is want (which is but sedom) 1t is at
 orce supplied By unanimous consent and
 contribution. At this council also some
 other matters pertaining to the general
 condition of the country are sometimes
 considered
 While Gulliver was still in the land of , the Houyhnhnms one of these councils