a modest proposal(一个小小的建议)

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A Modest Proposal

(for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being

a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial

to the publick.)

by Dr. Jonathan Swift. 1729

A Modest Proposal

It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town,

or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-

doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or

six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.

These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood,

are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their

helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work,

or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or

sell themselves to the Barbadoes.

I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of

children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and

frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom,

a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a

fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful

members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as

to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.

But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for

the children of professed beggars: it is of a much greater extent, and shall

take in the whole number of infants at a certain age, who are born of

parents in effect as little able to support them, as those who demand our

charity in the streets.

As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years, upon

this important subject, and maturely weighed the several schemes of our

projectors, I have always found them grossly mistaken in their

computation. It is true, a child just dropt from its dam, may be supported

by her milk, for a solar year, with little other nourishment: at most not

above the value of two shillings, which the mother may certainly get, or

the value in scraps, by her lawful occupation of begging; and it is exactly

at one year old that I propose to provide for them in such a manner, as,

instead of being a charge upon their parents, or the parish, or wanting food

and raiment for the rest of their lives, they shall, on the contrary,

contribute to the feeding, and partly to the cloathing of many thousands.

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