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2. Jonathan Swift, “The Storm: Minerva’s Petition,” in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams (Oxford, 1958), I, 304–05.
3. Moses Tyler, Three Men of Letters (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1895), 18.
4. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Norman Kemp Smith (1787; reprint, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1929), 89.
5. “Verses Proposed as an Inscription” (1749), reprinted in W. R. Wilde, The Closing Years of Dean Swift’s Life (Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1849), 87.