Gulliver is looking at various science and technological reasoning. He is out to expose the practical philosopher, who like the abstract philosopher fails. There are many not so exciting projects going on, and the project I liked the most in terms of stupidity is to make gun-powder from ice. And plowing the fields by burying food in them and letting hogs root for it. What is this? A language professor mixed word at random into sentences than collects the sentences that seem to make sense. I think Swift is making a hidden argument about his own society. But one of more reasonable experiment is trying to induce spiders to weave and spin silk. And building houses from the roof down, like you pointed out in class that is actually done in Spain.
             That might be the only experiment that we could say that is actually true.
             A building a house from roof down is a paradox to everything we have learned, didn't somebody say you have to lay the foundation first. It actually makes some, but not a lot of sense to do it from roof down, you could probably make the argument it has to be done that way in certain areas. But I'm not sure how to approach that argument; that is the only "reasonable" experiments that I could find in the book to write about. They are all so far of from reality. But Swift probably had that in mind when he wrote this.
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