1647. Jonathan Swift was born

325 years ago, on November 30, 1647, Jonathan Swift, the author of the “Adventures of Gulliver”, was born in Dublin. His work, according to the subtitle to the "fairy tales of the barrel", was aimed at "general improvement of the human race."

Few people remember that, in addition to creating satire, Swift, being the dean of the Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Patrick in Dublin, was an active fighter for the autonomy of Ireland, for which in 1729 he was awarded the title of honorary citizen Dublin. Now he is considered one of the national Irish heroes.

In the “modest proposal” pamphlet, Swift was mockingly suggested: if we are not able to feed the children of the Irish poor, doizing them for hunger and poverty, it is better to sell them to meat, and make gloves from the skin.

And in one of the letters he admitted: “I always hated all nations, professions and all kinds of communities; All my love is addressed to individual people: I hate, for example, a breed of lawyers, but I love the lawyer Namerek and Judge Namerek; The same applies to doctors (I will not talk about my own profession), soldiers, British, Scots, French and others. But first of all, I hate and despise the animal called man, although with all my heart I love John, Peter, Thomas, etc. ”