EPISODE · Mar 6, 2026 · 3 MIN
The Battle of the Books - The logicians refuted
from The Jonathan Swift Library · host Jonathan Swift
In which the esteemed Logicians, with much learned discourse, dispute the nature of reason and its possession by mankind, whilst the author humbly suggests that instinct may surpass the vaunted faculty of human rationality. Observing the follies of men and their courtly mimicries, he portrays the animal kingdom as free from such base affectations, save for the ape whose malice and mimicry are but a pale shadow of our own social prevarications.
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In which the esteemed Logicians, with much learned discourse, dispute the nature of reason and its possession by mankind, whilst the author humbly suggests that instinct may surpass the vaunted faculty of human rationality. Observing the follies of men and their courtly mimicries, he portrays the animal kingdom as free from such base affectations, save for the ape whose malice and mimicry are but a pale shadow of our own social prevarications.
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