A Grand Satire (A modest Propo

alculate there may be about two hundred thousand couples whose wives are breeders."(2474) His reference to the women as "breeders" lends an animal quality to them. It says that they are nothing more than livestock. Which is exactly how he sees them being treated. The pamphlet continues through figures without one atom of fact. This heightens the satire as he writes out his arithmetic on how many children the country will yield for wholesale in a year. At w
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