CHAPTER VIL.

The Author’s great love of his native country. * His master’s obser-
vations upon the constitution and administration of England, as
described by the Author, with parallel cases and comparisons.
His master’s observations upon human nature.

HE reader may be disposed to wonder how I could
‘prevail on myself to give so free a representation

of my own species, among a race of mortals who were
too apt to conceive the vilest opinion of human kind
from that entire congruity betwixt me and their yahoos.
But I must freely confess, that the many virtues of
those excellent quadrupeds placed in opposite view to
human corruptions, had so far opened my eyes and
enlightened my understanding, that J began to view the
actions and passions of man in a very different light,
and to think the honour of my own kind not worth
managing; which, besides, it was impossible for me to
do before aperson of so acute a judgment as my master,
who daily convinced me of ‘a thousand faults in myself,
whereof I had not the least perception before, and
which among us would never be numbered even among
human infirmities. I had likewise learned from his
example an utter detestation of .all falsehood or dis-