Gulliver

Gulliver´s Travels. Gulliver is looking at various science and technological reasoning. He is out to expose the practical philosopher, who like the abstract philosopher fails. There are many not so exciting projects going on, and the project I liked the most in terms of stupidity is to make gun-powder from ice. And plowing the fields by burying food in them and letting hogs root for it. What is this? A language professor mixed word …showed first 75 words of 254 total…

…showed last 75 words of 254 total…but not a lot of sense to do it from roof down, you could probably make the argument it has to be done that way in certain areas. But I’m not sure how to approach that argument; that is the only “reasonable” experiments that I could find in the book to write about. They are all so far of from reality. But Swift probably had that in mind when he wrote this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**