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Houyhnhnms race of horses that represent nobility, virtue, and reason. [Br. Lit.: Gulliver ’s Travels] See : Horse |
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In the long run, Gulliver (a surgeon) did make it to the land of the rational Houyhnhnms. I feel pretty confident that they will continue to swim against the prevailing current whether it is leading to the weedy shores of the Yahoos or the manicured pastures of the Houyhnhnms. In the fifth essay, "More, Montaigne, and Matthew Arnold: Thoughts on the Utopian Vision," Olin claims an influence of Erasmus on Rabelais's vision of the communal life of the Abbey of Theleme, a possible confluence of ideas in More's Utopia, Montaigne's essay "On Cannibals," and Shakespeare's Tempest, as well as in the Houyhnhnms of Swift's Gulliver's Travels, in the kingdom of Eldorado of Voltaire's Candide, and in Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy. |
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