Having thus answered the only objection that can ever be raised against me as a traveller, I here take a final leave of all my courteous readers, and return to enjoy my own speculations in my little garden at Redriff; to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which I learned among the Houyhnhnms; to instruct the Yahoos of my own family, as far as I shall find them docile animals; to behold my figure often in a glass, and thus, if possible, habituate myself by time to tolerate the sight of a human creature . . . . Which excerpt from the passage above indicates best that Swift is satirizing the elevation of reason above all other virtues? “I here take a final leave of all my courteous readers” “return to enjoy my own speculations in my little garden at Redriff” “apply those excellent lessons of virtue which I learned among the Houyhnhnms” “Having thus answered the only objection that can ever be raised against me as a traveller”
