The True Remedies Disavowed

From A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Near the end, Swift bitterly catalogs the genuine reforms (taxing absentee landlords, buying domestic goods, ending political corruption) that have been ignored, exposing his true polemical purpose.
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'Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither clothes, nor household furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture...' The satirical mask momentarily slips.

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Calls for 'a spirit of honesty, industry, and skill' and learning 'to love our country.'

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