
the Sake of my noble Master, his Family, his Friends, and the whole Houyhnhnm
Race, whom these of ours have the Honour to resemble in all their Lineaments,
however their Intellectuals came to degenerate.
    I began last Week to permit my Wife to sit at Dinner with me, at the
farthest End of a long Table; and to answer (but with the utmost Brevity) the
few Questions I asked her. Yet the Smell of a Yahoo continuing very offensive, I
always keep my Nose well stopt with Rue, Lavender, or Tobacco-Leaves. And
although it be hard for a Man late in Life to remove old Habits; I am not
altogether out of Hopes in some Time to suffer a Neighbour Yahoo in my Company,
without the Apprehensions I am yet under of his Teeth or his Claws.
    My Reconcilement to the Yahoo-kind in general might not be so difficult, if
they would be content with those Vices and Follies only which Nature hath
entitled them to. I am not in the least provoked at the Sight of a Lawyer, a
Pick-pocket, a Colonel, a Fool, a Lord, a Gamester, a Politician, a Whoremunger,
a Physician, an Evidence, a Suborner, an Attorney, a Traytor, or the like: This
is all according to the due Course of Things: But, when I behold a Lump of
Deformity, and Diseases both in Body and Mind, smitten with Pride, it
immediately breaks all the Measures of my Patience; neither shall I be ever able
to comprehend how such an Animal and such a Vice could tally together. The wise
and virtuous Houyhnhnms, who abound in all Excellencies that can adorn a
rational Creature, have no Name for this Vice in their Language, which hath no
Terms to express any thing that is evil, except those whereby they describe the
detestable Qualities of their Yahoos; among which they were not able to
distinguish this of Pride, for want of thoroughly understanding Human Nature, as
it sheweth it self in other Countries, where that Animal presides. But I, who
had more Experience, could plainly observe some Rudiments of it among the wild
Yahoos.
    But the Houyhnhnms, who live under the Government of Reason, are no more
proud of the good Qualities they possess, than I should be for not wanting a Leg
or an Arm, which no Man in his 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 Yahoo by any Means not insupportable; and
therefore I here intreat
