# Swift

Author: Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950

Genre: Authors, Irish -- 18th century -- Biography

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78641

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Swift+Van+Doren&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Jonathan Swift aimed at mankind the most venomous arrow that scorn has ever yet let loose. Mankind, bland abstraction, caught his arrow, laughed at it, and turned it over to children to play with. Children, inoculated with _Gulliver’s Travels_ at an age when it cannot harm them, are thereafter innocently immune. If they hear of Swift they recollect their toy, unaware that it was intended to be deadly or that it has still lost little of its furious poison. Mankind, by a stroke so bold that it must have been indifferent, has protected itself. Swift remains a show, the story of his wild assault fades from the record. Touch the pages of the record, however, and it blazes, a story of fire in a...

## Chapters

- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/swift-78641/chapters/17/index.md)