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... power remains in the body of the governed and how he objected to the contract theory as an explanation of the rise of authority because this theory seems not to reckon with the actualities of human behaviour we have already seen .
... power remains in the body of the governed and how he objected to the contract theory as an explanation of the rise of authority because this theory seems not to reckon with the actualities of human behaviour we have already seen .
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But there is present in Swift the moralist another element , complementary to the one that we have been exam- ining and charging it with terrific indignation — the element of anti - rationalism.15 The pessimistic view of human na- ture ...
But there is present in Swift the moralist another element , complementary to the one that we have been exam- ining and charging it with terrific indignation — the element of anti - rationalism.15 The pessimistic view of human na- ture ...
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The verses end by charging that Ęsop , upon whose fables Swift has just been drawing , did as a matter of fact libel the four - foot race when he sought to illustrate human nature by stories dealing with beasts .
The verses end by charging that Ęsop , upon whose fables Swift has just been drawing , did as a matter of fact libel the four - foot race when he sought to illustrate human nature by stories dealing with beasts .
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Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
MOOR PARK AND SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE | 10 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a | 49 |
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| Title | The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Ricardo Quintana |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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