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		Houyhnhnms contrast strongly with the Yahoos, savage humanoid creatures: whereas the Yahoos represent all that is bad about humans, Houyhnhnms have a stable, calm, and rational society.
		It is possible, for example, to regard them as a veiled criticism by Swift of the British Empire's treatment of non-whites as lesser humans, and it is similarly possible to regard Gulliver's preference (and immediate division of Houyhnhnms into color-based hierarchies) as absurd and the sign of his self-deception.
		The Houyhnhnm society is based upon reason, and only upon reason, and therefore the horses practice eugenics and genocide based on their analyses of benefit and cost.
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	Houyhnhnm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Houyhnhnms contrast strongly with the Yahoos, savage humanoid creatures: whereas the Yahoos represent all that is bad about humans, Houyhnhnms have a stable, calm, and rational society.
		The Houyhnhnm society is based upon reason, and only upon reason, and therefore the horses practice eugenics and genocide based on their analyses of benefit and cost.
		The Houyhnhnms embody both the good and the bad side of reason, for they have the pure language Swift wished for and the immorally rational approach to solving the problems of humanity (Yahoos); the extirpation of the Yahoo population by the horses is very like the speaker of A Modest Proposal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Houyhnhnm (577 words)

	Houyhnhnm - What is definition of the term - Houyhnhnm ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gulliver much prefers the Houyhnhnm company over the Yahoo's, even though the latter are biologically closer to him.
		Book IV of Gulliver's Travels is the keystone, in some ways, of the entire work, and critics have traditionally responded to the subject of whether Gulliver is insane (and therefore just another victim of Swift's satire) or not by questioning whether or not the Houhynhnms are truly admirable.
		The Houyhnhnms embody both the good and the bad side of reason, for they have the pure language Swift wished for and the immorally rational approach to solving the problems of humanity (Yahoos); the extirpation of the Yahoo population by the horses is very like the speaker of A Modest Proposal.
	www.linguasphere.org /dictionary/n-35701-Houyhnhnm.html (688 words)

	Gull
		The point of making both the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms animals is to remind us that both pure reason unleavened with compassion, etc., and pure passions, unrestrained by reason, ideals, principles, etc., are unhuman.
		Houyhnhnm master suggests that government and law are necessary because of humankind's defects in reason--if our reason were powerful enough we could govern ourselves.
		At this very point, the Houyhnhnms decide to boot him off their island because he is potential danger.
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		Houyhnhnm master suggests that government and law are necessary because of humankind's defects in reason-if our reason were powerful enough we could govern ourselves.
		In Part 4, the Houyhnhnm master plays the relatively small role of asking questions while Gulliver himself delivers the anti-humankind diatribe; this is the opposite to what occurred in Part 2.
		Coleridge is even moved to argue against the Houyhnhnms that the human body is better equipped for climbing and managing tools than is the equine physiqe.
	flash.lakeheadu.ca /~jrichard/gulliver.html (2991 words)

	Gulliver's Travels Book Notes Summary by Jonathan Swift: Book 4, Chapters 1-4
		A powerful Houyhnhnm takes Gulliver under his wings to teach him the language and culture of the land.
		Gulliver learns that Houyhnhnm comes from the word, horse, which means the Perfection of Nature.
		One night while Gulliver is sleeping, a Houyhnhnm spies him with his clothes half off, looking quite different than the presentable, clothed Englishman that he is. They question him and wonder why he changed his appearance so.
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	Gulliver's Travels Essays - Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels - Yahoos and Houyhnhnms
		In the fourth voyage, Swift presents a case study for opposing states of nature, with the Yahoos representing the argument that man is governed by his passions, seeking his own advantage, pursuing pleasures and avoiding pain, and the Houyhnhnms representing the argument that man is governed by reason.
		Another theory is that Gulliver made a mistake in regarding the Houyhnhnms as models to be emulated: so far from being admirable creatures they are as repulsive as the Yahoos.
		The Houyhnhnm word for to die is "Lhnuwnh.” The word is strongly expressive in their language.
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	Gulliver
		If this is the case, then Swifts misanthropy was such that he saw men as the foul and disgusting Yahoos, and made it plain that reform of the species was out of the question.
		Yet instead of employing it as the Houyhnhnms did to eliminate passion, in the words of Gullivers host "We made no other use of it than by its assistance to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones which Nature had not given us".
		To the Houyhnhnms, therefore, they were not better than the Yahoos, they were worse: the Yahoos at least had the excuse that they were not endowed with Reason.
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	Chapter Chapter 3 of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
		The Houyhnhnm, his master, assists in teaching him.
		The word HOUYHNHNM, in their tongue, signifies a HORSE, and, in its etymology, the PERFECTION OF NATURE.
		By all these advantages I made so great a progress, that, in five months from my arrival I understood whatever was spoken, and could express myself tolerably well.
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	Gulliver's Travels - Sources - Criticism & Interpretation: Houyhnhnm Land
		The voyage to Houyhnhnm Land is also the most troubling to readers and critics.
		The persistent simple approach is that Swift shared Gulliver's views and intended the Yahoos to represent humanity as it really is and that the Houyhnhnms represent a truly superior way of life.
		On the other hand, there is a growing awareness that Swift's portrait of the Houyhnhnms was also harsh and that he did not share Gulliver's infatuation with his hosts.
	www.jaffebros.com /lee/gulliver/sources/part4.html (413 words)

	Essays.cc - Satire Of Gulliver's Travels
		The Houyhnhnms seem to embody virtue and all the perfections that humans seek, but there are inconsistencies in their behavior that are reflective human faults.
		The Houyhnhnms are surprised when they first see him take off his hat; It is a reasonable and natural reaction since the Houyhnhnms do not wear clothing.
		He believes that the kind of influence the Houyhnhnm's ideal virtues had on Gulliver is similar to the strict and perfect obedience to Christian ideals as would have been done in eighteenth century society.
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	Sample Essay 1-1
		The Houyhnhnms identify Gulliver as a Yahoo throughout the story as is evident in his master’s opinion of him: “He was convinced (as he afterwards told me) that I must be a Yahoo, but my teachableness, civility, and cleanliness astonished him” (2436).
		Gulliver’s acceptance of the views of the Houyhnhnms help to bring him to the recognition that he is a Yahoo.
		The first encounters of the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnm by Gulliver evoked wonder in that they were not of the narrator’s previous reality.
	www.calstatela.edu /faculty/jgarret/200c-Fall03/sample1-1.htm (1003 words)

	Study Guide: Swift Bk 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The horses are called “houyhnhnms,” and the humanoid creatures are called “yahoos.” The houyhnhnms have their own language based on horse whinnies.
		The houyhnhnms seem imminently rational, but are puzzled by Gulliver who also seems to be somewhat rational in spite of looking very much like a yahoo.
		Gulliver begs to stay, but the houyhnhnms help him build a canoe which takes him to another island where he is rescued.
	www.engl.niu.edu /jschaeffer/110/sgeswift4.html (582 words)

	Gulliver's Travels - Part IV: A VOYAGE TO THE HOUYHNHNMS - Chapter 3
		The Author studious to learn the Language, the Houyhnhnm, his Master assists in teaching him.
		The Word Houyhnhnm, in their Tongue, signifies a Horse, and in its Etymology, the Perfection of Nature.
		The Houyhnhnms who came to visit my Master with the Design of seeing and talking with me, could hardly believe me to be a right Yahoo, because my Body had a different Covering from others of my Kind.
	www.jaffebros.com /lee/gulliver/bk4/chap4-3.html (1214 words)

	Gulliver: Intolerance Personified
		Gulliver, who is now a firm believer in Houyhnhnm superiority, does not believe that anybody could show hospitality besides them.
		It is obvious that Swift intended this to be so, first describing what the reader saw as general characteristics of colonization, and then saying that the British were the exceptions to the rule.
		This causes the reader to question if Gulliver has really learned anything, as even though he seems to believe that the Houyhnhnm’s ways were better, he still seems to have a devotion to the culture of the British.
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	Houyhnhnm Stables
		The Houyhnhnm are by far the most admirable and refined of all the fantastic beings Gulliver encounters.
		The Houyhnhnm have no concept of deceit or conflict; they are wise, noble, gallant, supremely rational creatures.
		Particularly with respect to honesty, reason, and a progressive pursuit of knowledge, the virtues and values of the Houyhnhnm are a fitting nod to the exceptional principles and worth ethic behind Houyhnhnm Stables LLC 2004.
	www.winemstables.com /houyhnhnm.htm (250 words)

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		Gulliver is able to mimic the Houyhnhnm’s own words and persuades the horse master to protect him.
		Through the horse Gulliver is led to reevaluate the differences between humans and beasts and to question humanity’s claims to rationality.
		Houyhnhnms - represent an ideal of rational existence, a life governed by sense and moderation of which philosophers since Plato have long dreamed.
	www.mindspring.com /~jskesterson/bookreviews/GulliversTravels.doc (994 words)

	Houyhnhnm Stables
		Houyhnhnm Stables' Itchy Richie won his maiden race, a five furlong event on turf, at Laurel Park in Maryland.
		Houyhnhnm Stables' Be Wild Again battled Darley Stables' formidable Blue Sunday to win by a head.
		Despite running on a deep rail while the far more experienced winner came up on the harder, faster crown, Morph beat the next horse by five lengths in what turned out to be the day’s fastest race (against a field of owners and trainers one broadcaster called a “Who’s Who of Racing”).
	www.winemstables.com /winemnews.htm (1432 words)

	FREE Barron's Booknotes-Gulliver's Travels by Jonanthan Swift-PART IV, CHAPTER IV-Free Book Notes Summary Online Notes ...
		PART IV By now Gulliver is fluent enough in the Houyhnhnm language to tell his master some particulars about himself, the ways of his countrymen, and the events of his voyage.
		As there is no word for "lying" in the Houyhnhnm language, there is no word for "doubt." The Houyhnhnm says that lying defeats the very purpose of language, which is to make us understand one another.
		Needless to say, he's indignant that Yahoos ride on the backs of Houyhnhnms in England, and shocked that castration of horses is a common practice.
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	Gulliver's Travels
		The analysis concludes that in contrast to this situation, Gulliver’s voyage to Brobdingnag and the land of the Houyhnhnms see him take up the role of weak Englishman, a foil to the idealised world of classical values he inhabits.
		The Yahoos and Houyhnhnms represent the two extremes of the natural state separated — ‘part god, part beast’: humanity as depicted by Plato v.
		This interpretation has been questioned by other critics arguing that the Houyhnhnms are not, in fact a representation of a Platonic ideal but an allegorical critique of Deism: Houyhnhnm behaviour illustrating the ‘inadequacy and negativity of a life of pure rationality’ (Williams as discussed by Tippett).
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	Instead of a Yahoo
		Houyhnhnm, to be pronounced as a whinney (whinnem), is the name Swift gave to his rational horse creatures in the final book of
		So I decided on the email name houyhnhnm, which would distinguish myself, I thought, from all the yahoos.
		And was pleasantly surprised when the name was available; it seemed such an obvious moniker to choose.
	www.geocities.com /houyhnhnm/who.html (252 words)

	essays papers - Gulliver
		Houyhnhnms symbolize what man ought to be, unselfish, rational, cultured.
		Houyhnhnms as models to be emulated: so far from being admirable
		The moral of the encounter with the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms is that
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	The Bottom Line
		I work as an in-house Houyhnhnm-Yahoo translator for a large Houyhnhnm company and have repeatedly observed a phenomenon which, to my knowledge, no one has openly discussed before: the more literal, i.e.
		This way everybody is happy: the Houyhnhnms think they're getting a wonderful translation and the translators don't have to deal with constant questions.
		Pretty soon Houyhnhnms will be trampling a path to your cubicle as your craven colleagues look on in envy.
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