Two meditations on the fiction of the Enlightenment by LAURENCE LERNER
2: Two-legged Houyhnhnms
Mr. Lerner examines the work of Benjamin Constant, Racine, and Swift. He argues that 'AH his life, Swift was haunted by the question whether man was a rational creature, or merely rationis capax, capable of reason. We see now that this was not his problem only. but that of his age.'