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PART ONE

THE YAHOOS

By what I could discover, the Yahoos appear to be the most unteachable of all animals, their capaci­ties never reaching higher than to draw or carry burdens. Yet I am of the opinion, this defect ariseth chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition. For they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful. They are strong and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and by consequence insolent, abject, and cruel.

—JONATHAN SWIFT,

Gulliver’s Travels

When the stars threw down their spears,

And water’d heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

—WILLIAM BLAKE,

“The Tyger”