Read the excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal." swift wrote this essay as a satire to suggest how the children of poor people can stop being a burden to their parents and society. which line from the excerpt demonstrates swift's use of logical appeal (although distorted logic) to persuade readers to adopt his purposely shocking suggestion of eating children as a cheaper alternative to meat?
1)and i believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child, which, as i have said, will make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat
2)a very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues i highly esteem, was lately , in discoursing on this matter, to offer a refinement upon my scheme.
3)but with due deference to so excellent a friend, and so deserving a patriot, i cannot be altogether in his sentiments
4)it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice, (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty, which, i confess, hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how well soever intended.