Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed, and I have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken to ease the nation of so grievous an encumbrance. But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known that they are every day dying and rotting by cold and famine, and filth and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the young laborers, they are now in as hopeful a condition; they cannot get work, and consequently pine away for want of nourishment, to a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labor, they have not strength to perform it; and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come.

I have too long digressed, and therefore shall return to my subject. I think the advantages by the proposal which I have made are obvious and many, as well as of the highest importance. For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of papists, with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principal breeders of the nation as well as our most dangerous enemies; and who stay at home on purpose with a design to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender, hoping to take their advantage by the absence of so many good protestants, who have chosen rather to leave their country than stay at home and pay tithes against their conscience to an episcopal curate.

Secondly, The poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to distress and help to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown.

Thirdly, Whereas the maintenance of an hundred thousand children, from two years old and upward, cannot be computed at less than ten shillings a-piece per annum, the nation's stock will be thereby increased fifty thousand pounds per annum, beside the profit of a new dish introduced to the tables of all gentlemen of fortune in the kingdom who have any refinement in taste. And the money will circulate among ourselves, the goods being entirely of our own growth and manufacture.

Fourthly, The constant breeders, beside the gain of eight shillings sterling per annum by the sale of their children, will be rid of the charge of maintaining them after the first year.

Fifthly, This food would likewise bring great custom to taverns; where the vintners will certainly be so prudent as to procure the best receipts for dressing it to perfection, and consequently have their houses frequented by all the fine gentlemen, who justly value themselves upon their knowledge in good eating: and a skilful cook, who understands how to oblige his guests, will contrive to make it as expensive as they please.

Sixthly, This would be a great inducement to marriage, which all wise nations have either encouraged by rewards or enforced by laws and penalties. It would increase the care and tenderness of mothers toward their children, when they were sure of a settlement for life to the poor babes, provided in some sort by the public, to their annual profit instead of expense. We should see an honest emulation among the married women, which of them could bring the fattest child to the market. Men would become as fond of their wives during the time of their pregnancy as they are now of their mares in foal, their cows in calf, their sows when they are ready to farrow; nor offer to beat or kick them (as is too frequent a practice) for fear of a miscarriage.

• again, the animal imagery appears in plenty to describe the poor children. knowing how ridiculous hte proposal sounds, Swift makes it appeal to the upper class most of all, there by calling into attnetion their normal pattern of action. money is again made out to be more important than humanity, as his sixth point says about men not beating their wives not for love but for a paycheck.
• First, Swift begins by saying that if the country were to start using this method, they would not be the worst people. Then Swift moves on to address the problem with those who are currently old and ill. After that, Swift starts to list justifications to this proposal. They are pretty straight forward.
• haha, the fact that money can be made off of selling the kids as cooking ingredients means that men would not beat their wives for fear of losing the baby. That is pretty solid arguing and a good political statement too (stop beating your wives, duh). There's plenty of other things to mention but I really do feel like I keep repeating myself so I will just move on to the next slide.
• Swift's organization in this section exposes elaborate narrative the advantages of his proposal, which he presented briefly in previous sections.  It dawns on me now, that each of these arguments are formulated as to anticipate the dissent some readers might have as they were reading, and although his argument is completely impossible, by stacking all the reasons one after the other in a rising argument form, it disguises the project's lack of seriousness. It's clear at this point that the narrator expects no one to questions his proposal, because he's already laid-out and built into the text opposing argument someone might have made in the text itsef.