...revealed in a sentence which has been quoted again and again from a letter to Popef "I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth." The hatred can hardly be disputed by any reader of the loathsome Voyage to the Hot1yhnknms,...

...letter to Pope, Sept. 29, 1725, written at the time of Gulliver's Travels : "I heartily hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth." Is there any reason to doubt Swift's honesty in this ? And is this misanthropy ? If it be...

...physicians . . . soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth; . . ." His hatred of that animal called man and his contempt for the Irish did not prevent...

...professions, and communities; and all my love is towards individuals. . . . But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth." In men as different as Malraux and Whitehead, we see the essentially religious attempt to...

...professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals . . . But principally I detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth." Satire at that stage moves beyond revenges and reforms, well beyond individuals or institutions,...

...with physicians..., soldiers, English, Scots, French and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years . . . and so I shall go on...

...professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals. ... but principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth." Burke understood the soundness of moral principle behind such an apparently extreme statement....

...omnipresence, our divine equality! (104) Swift wrote to Pope in 1725 that "principally I hate and detest that animal called Man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth" (3:277). Melville, on the other hand, sees in John and Peter fools and murderers, yet loves...

...sentimentality of protohumanist philanthropy ('all my love is towards individuals ... I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth') counts as nothing against his friend Pope's declaration that 'The proper study of mankind...

...professions, and communities, and all my love is towards individuals. . . . But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth." The man who more than anyone despised the human race was no less possessed by a frantic...