Someone said that Jonathan Swift smiled only three times all his whole life(Since he died at the age of 77, his smiling average is about once per 25 years). But how can that someone be sure about that thing? Did he stay with him from his birth until his death? He must have made up the episode, but he wouldn’t have made it up unless it had been plausible. It at least indicates what kind of man he was regarded. Indeed he was the gloomiest man that ever lived. For some reason I don't know exactly he was violently intolerant towards his fellow-creatures. He had neither pity nor charity towards them and he tried not to find anything valuable in them, but to find how base they were at the bottom of their heart for all their outward seeming. He exposed the meanness, platitude, imbecility, and anything disgraceful lurking inside them. But it seems to me that in spite of all his loathing for those hateful features in his fellow-creatures, he took a morbid delight in exhibiting them in all their odiousness, otherwise he could not have written such a revolting story with so much vigor and with so much humor. After having put his fellow-creatures to pieces with a very stark style, he concludes this book with the following defiant sentence. “Therefore I here intreat those who have any Tincture of this absurd Vice, that they will not presume to appear in my Sight( this absurd vice means vanity here).