or wineà.(Swift).
Swift tackles several controversial issues just in this little speechùthe greediness of royalty who want more subjects to govern, the corruption of government advisors who engage their master in a war to cover up the outcry of the citizenry against the evils that the advisors have perpetrated against them, and religious arguments between Catholics and Protestants over whether holy communion converts the bread and wine to the actual body and blood of Jesus. What Swift is highlighting in this passage is that the reasons for war are either self-serving or fr
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