society out to be more equal and therefore more advanced? Or is he trying to put them down by focusing on the mares foolishness for "hitting on a horse not capable of the level of though in which she is? More likely than not he Swift was not concerned with the sex equality aspect and used this scene to hurt the pride of the mare which shows more imperfection in the Houyhnhnms.
             A final indication that the Houyhnmns are not meant to be taken seriously and are not Swifts model for the ideal in which his satire derives occurs when the leader of the Houyhnhnms' visits Lilliput, where he visits the French Royal Society. He goes into a room in which a scientist is trying to turn wine into water. The scientist has been working hard at the experiment for many years without success, when the Houyhnhnm arrives, "The creature no sooner stepped through the doorway than he struck upon a plan. Slurping up all the wine in sight, he quickly made water in a bucket that sat near the door". He has accomplished
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