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Jonathan Swift proposed eating babies — and it remains the most devastating piece of political satire ever written in the English language.
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For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. by Dr. Jonathan Swift 1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel…
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