"I descended so low as to desire that some English Yeomen of the old Stamp might be summoned to appear"
- p188, end of part III chapter 8
After all the criticism he's thrown around, is Gulliver revealing his true patriotic stripes here? That is, perhaps he is not merely saying that England is worse than all of the other places in the world, but rather, that it is not living up to its mythology. (A comparable use of rhetoric in the USA might, in the face of domestic injustice, speak of the "real America" that the early settlers "fought and died for" and so on).
If so, this is perhaps the second instance, after Socrates, of a direct relationship between patriotism and criticism.
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