Proposition for debate: The Fourth Voyage of Swift's Gulliver's Travels suggests that human kind would be more happy if they could think and behave the way the Houyhnhns do.

Assignment: read the Fourth Voyage carefully, and depending upon where you sit in the lecture hall, come up with four or five reasons either "For" or "Against" the Proposition. Be sure to ground your reasons and arguments in particular passages of the text.