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I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the y most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Answer: This is part of the famous speech of the King of Brobdingnag on the people of England in Chapter 6, Part 2 of Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Here the Brobdingnagian King ruthlessly denunciates the people of Gulliver's homeland.
Gulliver had to share his views with the Brobdingnagian King about his country as a whole throughout a number of conversations between them. Gulliver presented an admirable picture of England and his countrymen to the King. He portrayed England and the English as gloriously as possible. He expressed his heartfelt admiration for his countrymen. In fact, he wanted to enter into the good book of the King by presenting to him a good image of the country he belonged to. But his effort went in vain. The King described the last hundred years of English history as a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, and very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce." This is a shocking judgment for Gulliver on the image of his country. The King does not stop here. He comes up with a further bombshell for Gulliver by saying that the bulk of his natives is the most pernicious race of odious little vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.” The King almost denounces the existence of the English as a human race, let alone the civilized one that Gulliver tried to stand for. Gulliver used the insect imagery to represent the morality of his countrymen to the King. He even bragged that bees and ants in his country have a reputation for sagacity. It becomes something like a boomerang for him. The King ironically uses the same insect imagery to define the nature of Gulliver's natives.
In these quoted lines, Swift exposes not only the darker aspects of English people but also the fallen nature of the human race. He wields here pungent satire against the self-seeking and corrupt politicians of his time as well as the frailty of mankind.
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