ut the houyhnhms, who live under the government of reason, are no more proud of the good qualities they posses, than i should be for not wanting a leg or an arm, which no man in this wits would boast of, although he must be miserable without them. i dwell the longer upon this subject from the desire i have to make the society of an english by any means not insupportable, and therefore i here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice, that they will not presume to appear in my sight.