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I
would
entertain
myself
in
forming
and
directing
the
minds
of
hopeful
young
men
,
by
convincing
them
,
from
my
own
remembrance
,
experience
,
and
observation
,
fortified
by
numerous
examples
,
of
the
usefulness
of
virtue
in
public
and
private
life
.
But
my
choice
and
constant
companions
should
be
a
set
of
my
own
immortal
brotherhood
;
among
whom
,
I
would
elect
a
dozen
from
the
most
ancient
,
down
to
my
own
contemporaries
.
Where
any
of
these
wanted
fortunes
,
I
would
provide
them
with
convenient
lodges
round
my
own
estate
,
and
have
some
of
them
always
at
my
table
;
only
mingling
a
few
of
the
most
valuable
among
you
mortals
,
whom
length
of
time
would
harden
me
to
lose
with
little
or
no
reluctance
,
and
treat
your
posterity
after
the
same
manner
;
just
as
a
man
diverts
himself
with
the
annual
succession
of
pinks
and
tulips
in
his
garden
,
without
regretting
the
loss
of
those
which
withered
the
preceding
year
.
"
These
struldbrugs
and
I
would
mutually
communicate
our
observations
and
memorials
,
through
the
course
of
time
;
remark
the
several
gradations
by
which
corruption
steals
into
the
world
,
and
oppose
it
in
every
step
,
by
giving
perpetual
warning
and
instruction
to
mankind
;
which
,
added
to
the
strong
influence
of
our
own
example
,
would
probably
prevent
that
continual
degeneracy
of
human
nature
so
justly
complained
of
in
all
ages
.
"
Add
to
this
,
the
pleasure
of
seeing
the
various
revolutions
of
states
and
empires
;
the
changes
in
the
lower
and
upper
world
;
ancient
cities
in
ruins
,
and
obscure
villages
become
the
seats
of
kings
;
famous
rivers
lessening
into
shallow
brooks
;
the
ocean
leaving
one
coast
dry
,
and
overwhelming
another
;
the
discovery
of
many
countries
yet
unknown
;
barbarity
overrunning
the
politest
nations
,
and
the
most
barbarous
become
civilized
.
I
should
then
see
the
discovery
of
the
longitude
,
the
perpetual
motion
,
the
universal
medicine
,
and
many
other
great
inventions
,
brought
to
the
utmost
perfection
.
"
What
wonderful
discoveries
should
we
make
in
astronomy
,
by
outliving
and
confirming
our
own
predictions
;
by
observing
the
progress
and
return
of
comets
,
with
the
changes
of
motion
in
the
sun
,
moon
,
and
stars
!
"
I
enlarged
upon
many
other
topics
,
which
the
natural
desire
of
endless
life
,
and
sublunary
happiness
,
could
easily
furnish
me
with
.
When
I
had
ended
,
and
the
sum
of
my
discourse
had
been
interpreted
,
as
before
,
to
the
rest
of
the
company
,
there
was
a
good
deal
of
talk
among
them
in
the
language
of
the
country
,
not
without
some
laughter
at
my
expense
.
At
last
,
the
same
gentleman
who
had
been
my
interpreter
,
said
,
"
he
was
desired
by
the
rest
to
set
me
right
in
a
few
mistakes
,
which
I
had
fallen
into
through
the
common
imbecility
of
human
nature
,
and
upon
that
allowance
was
less
answerable
for
them
.
That
this
breed
of
struldbrugs
was
peculiar
to
their
country
,
for
there
were
no
such
people
either
in
Balnibarbi
or
Japan
,
where
he
had
the
honour
to
be
ambassador
from
his
majesty
,
and
found
the
natives
in
both
those
kingdoms
very
hard
to
believe
that
the
fact
was
possible
:
and
it
appeared
from
my
astonishment
when
he
first
mentioned
the
matter
to
me
,
that
I
received
it
as
a
thing
wholly
new
,
and
scarcely
to
be
credited
.
That
in
the
two
kingdoms
above
mentioned
,
where
,
during
his
residence
,
he
had
conversed
very
much
,
he
observed
long
life
to
be
the
universal
desire
and
wish
of
mankind
.
That
whoever
had
one
foot
in
the
grave
was
sure
to
hold
back
the
other
as
strongly
as
he
could
.
That
the
oldest
had
still
hopes
of
living
one
day
longer
,
and
looked
on
death
as
the
greatest
evil
,
from
which
nature
always
prompted
him
to
retreat
.
Only
in
this
island
of
Luggnagg
the
appetite
for
living
was
not
so
eager
,
from
the
continual
example
of
the
struldbrugs
before
their
eyes
.
"
That
the
system
of
living
contrived
by
me
,
was
unreasonable
and
unjust
;
because
it
supposed
a
perpetuity
of
youth
,
health
,
and
vigour
,
which
no
man
could
be
so
foolish
to
hope
,
however
extravagant
he
may
be
in
his
wishes
.
That
the
question
therefore
was
not
,
whether
a
man
would
choose
to
be
always
in
the
prime
of
youth
,
attended
with
prosperity
and
health
;
but
how
he
would
pass
a
perpetual
life
under
all
the
usual
disadvantages
which
old
age
brings
along
with
it
.
For
although
few
men
will
avow
their
desires
of
being
immortal
,
upon
such
hard
conditions
,
yet
in
the
two
kingdoms
before
mentioned
,
of
Balnibarbi
and
Japan
,
he
observed
that
every
man
desired
to
put
off
death
some
time
longer
,
let
it
approach
ever
so
late
:
and
he
rarely
heard
of
any
man
who
died
willingly
,
except
he
were
incited
by
the
extremity
of
grief
or
torture
.
And
he
appealed
to
me
,
whether
in
those
countries
I
had
travelled
,
as
well
as
my
own
,
I
had
not
observed
the
same
general
disposition
.
"
After
this
preface
,
he
gave
me
a
particular
account
of
the
struldbrugs
among
them
.
He
said
,
"
they
commonly
acted
like
mortals
till
about
thirty
years
old
;
after
which
,
by
degrees
,
they
grew
melancholy
and
dejected
,
increasing
in
both
till
they
came
to
fourscore
.
This
he
learned
from
their
own
confession
:
for
otherwise
,
there
not
being
above
two
or
three
of
that
species
born
in
an
age
,
they
were
too
few
to
form
a
general
observation
by
.
When
they
came
to
fourscore
years
,
which
is
reckoned
the
extremity
of
living
in
this
country
,
they
had
not
only
all
the
follies
and
infirmities
of
other
old
men
,
but
many
more
which
arose
from
the
dreadful
prospect
of
never
dying
.
They
were
not
only
opinionative
,
peevish
,
covetous
,
morose
,
vain
,
talkative
,
but
incapable
of
friendship
,
and
dead
to
all
natural
affection
,
which
never
descended
below
their
grandchildren
.
Envy
and
impotent
desires
are
their
prevailing
passions
.
But
those
objects
against
which
their
envy
seems
principally
directed
,
are
the
vices
of
the
younger
sort
and
the
deaths
of
the
old
.
By
reflecting
on
the
former
,
they
find
themselves
cut
off
from
all
possibility
of
pleasure
;
and
whenever
they
see
a
funeral
,
they
lament
and
repine
that
others
have
gone
to
a
harbour
of
rest
to
which
they
themselves
never
can
hope
to
arrive
.
They
have
no
remembrance
of
anything
but
what
they
learned
and
observed
in
their
youth
and
middle-age
,
and
even
that
is
very
imperfect
;
and
for
the
truth
or
particulars
of
any
fact
,
it
is
safer
to
depend
on
common
tradition
,
than
upon
their
best
recollections
.
The
least
miserable
among
them
appear
to
be
those
who
turn
to
dotage
,
and
entirely
lose
their
memories
;
these
meet
with
more
pity
and
assistance
,
because
they
want
many
bad
qualities
which
abound
in
others
.
