rrecting, amending, and transcribing my _Travels_ [_Gulliver's_],
in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended for the press
when the world shall deserve them, or rather, when a printer shall
be found brave enough to venture his ears. I like the scheme of our
meeting after distresses and dissensions; but the chief end I
propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than
divert it; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own
person and fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer you
have ever seen, without reading. I am exceedingly pleased that you
have done with translations; Lord Treasurer Oxford often lamented
that a rascally world should lay you under a necessity of
misemploying your genius for so long a time; but since you will now
be so much better employed, when you think of the world, give it one
lash the more at my request. I have ever hated all societies,
professions, and communities; and all my love is towards
individuals--for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love
Councillor Such-a-one and Judge Such-a-one: it is so with physicians
(I will not speak of my own trade), soldiers, English, Scotch,
French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal
called man--although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so on.

"... I have got materials towards a treatise proving the falsity of
that definition _animal rationale_, and to show it should be only
_rationis capax_.... The matter is so clear that it will admit of no
dispute--nay, I will hold a hundred pounds that you and I agree in
the point....

"Dr. Lewis sent me an account of Dr. Arbuthnot's illness, which is a
very sensible affliction to me, who, by living so long out of the
world, have lost that hardness of heart contracted by years and
general conversation. I am daily losing friends, and neither seeking
nor getting others. Oh, if the world had but a dozen of Arbuthnots
in it, I would burn my _Travels_!"

MR. POPE TO DR. SWIFT.

"October 15, 1725.

"I am wonderfully pleased with the suddenness of your kind answer.
It makes me hope you are coming towards us, and that you incline
more and more to your old friends.... Here is one [Lord Bolingbroke]
who was once a powerful p