rous and revengeful. These are all of the virtues that humans carry and Houyhnhnms do not but again the humans claim that they have reason. Gulliver finally comes out and says that he does in fact believe that he is a "real yahoo" and that he could no longer go on to deny his real identity. As the teachings over Gulliver towards his mater goes on his Master begins to laugh at him saying that "a creature pretending to reason, should value itself upon the knowledge of other peoples conjectures and in things were that knowledge if it were certain could be of no use." The Master continued to see holes and faults in the "reasoning" of the faraway Yahoos and Gulliver continued his feelings of bitterness towards his own race. As Gulliver concludes his teachings on "his kind" and his Master gets a chance to explain the virtues of the Houyhnhnms by beginning with the statement that "Friendship and benevolence are the two principal virtues among the Houhnhnms; and those not confined to particular objects, but universal to the whole race. (P.234) This is the whole foundation to the culture and this is what they stick by and never deviate from. I think that this is also the very same fact that intrigues Gulliver to begin to develop a love for the Houyhnhnms and an utter hatred for ALL yahoos. The Master goes on to explain how families are raised, how loved ones are disposed of when they pass, (never of disease) as well as how their society is ran. The children are raised to understand and practice temperance, industry, exercise, and cleanliness. The Master also teaches Gulliver about their system of government and how it is referred to as the Representative Council that meets on the conditions of the race and how to remedy any problems that may arise. He also informs Gulliver that overall "the Houyhnhnms have no word in their language to express any thing that is evil, except what they borrow from the deformities or ill qualities of the ...
