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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift
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Title: A Modest Proposal
For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland,
from being a burden on their parents or country, and for
making them beneficial to the publick - 1729
Author: Jonathan Swift
Release Date: July 27, 2008 [EBook #1080]
Language: English
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A MODEST PROPOSAL
For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland,
from being a burden on their parents or country,
and for making them beneficial to the publick.
by Dr. Jonathan Swift
1729
It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great
town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the
roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,
followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and
importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of
being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to
employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their
helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want
of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the
Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.
I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number
of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their
mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present
deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance;
and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method
of making these children sound and useful members of the
common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his
statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only
for the children of professed beggars: it is of a much greater
extent, and shall take in the whole number of infants at a certain
age, who are born of parents in effect as little able to support
them, as those who demand our charity in the streets.
As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years,
upon this important subject, and maturely ............

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