Politically, Swift Was One Of Those People

Imperialism As He [kipling] Sees It Is A Sort Of Forcible Evangelising.

All Rulers In All Ages Have Tried To Impose A False View Of The World Upon Their Followers.

Why Was It That They Could Never Shout Like That About Anything That Mattered?

The Child Thinks Of Growing Old As An Almost Obscene Calamity, Which For Some Mysterious Reason Will Never Happen To Itself. All Who Have Passed The Age Of Thirty Are Joyless Grotesques, Endlessly Fussing About Things Of No Importance And Staying Alive Without, So Far As The Child Can See, Having Anything To Live For. Only Child Life Is Real Life.

Progress And Reaction Have Both Turned Out To Be Swindles. Seemingly, There Is Nothing Left But Quietism - Robbing Reality Of Its Terrors By Simply Submitting To It.