A MODEST PROPOSAL/JOHN SWIFT HELP!?

Swift had a reputation as a misanthrope (a person who hates mankind), but he explained in a letter to his friend Alexander Pope that he "hate[d] and detest[ed] that animal called man" but "heartily love[d]" the individual man. how is this outlook shown in his work? (A Modest Proposal)

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