The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with " pretty stones " they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain.

In the original, Gulliver is stranded in a country dominated by civilised horses, the Houyhnhnms, finds them much superior to humans, and identifies European humans with the degenerate " Yahoos " which the Houyhnhnms in his view justifiably dominate.

The Houyhnhnms embody both the good and the bad side of reason, for they have the pure language Swift wished for and the immorally rational approach to solving the problems of humanity ( Yahoos ); the extirpation of the Yahoo population by the horses is very like the speaker of A Modest Proposal.

In the shipping lanes he is rescued by a Portuguese sea captain, a level-headed individual albeit full of concern for others, whose temperament at one level looks like a medium between that of the calm, rational Houyhnhnms of Houyhnhnmland and the norm of corrupt, European humanity, which Gulliver no longer distinguishes from Houyhnhnmland's wild Yahoos.

Gulliver comes to admire these wise horses, while feeling repulsed by the local feral humans called Yahoos.

Houyhnhnms contrast strongly with the Yahoos, savage humanoid creatures: whereas the Yahoos represent all that is bad about humans, Houyhnhnms have a stable, calm, reliable and rational society.

Gulliver much prefers the Houyhnhnms ' company to the Yahoos ', even though the latter are biologically closer to him.

Gulliver is returned to his English home and family, finds their smell and look intolerable and all his countrymen no better than " Yahoos ," purchases and converses with two stabled horses, tolerating the stable boy, and assures the reader of his account's utter veracity.

In other proto-SF works, sex itself, of any type, was equated with base desires or " beastliness ", as in Gulliver's Travels, which contrasts the animalistic and overtly sexual Yahoos with the reserved and intelligent Houyhnhnms.

Gulliver can no longer stand the smell of the English Yahoos ( people ), so he stuffs rue or tobacco in his nose to block out the smell.

The band is best known for the single " Banditos " from their 1996 breakthrough album Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy, and also for " Yahoos and Triangles ," the theme music to the long-running animated series King of the Hill.

Shortly afterwards, Wilson replied, defending himself and adding " What strikes me as so interesting is that when Mr. Gardner — and his colleagues of CSICOP — begin to denounce the ' Yahoos of the paranormal ,' they manage to generate an atmosphere of such intense hysteria ...".

It shows that, indeed, the very desire for reason may be undesirable, and humans must struggle to be neither Yahoos nor Houyhnhnms, for book three shows what happens when reason is unleashed without any consideration of morality or utility ( i. e. madness, ruin, and starvation ).

Book four shows that, indeed, the very desire for reason may be undesirable, and humans must struggle to be neither Yahoos nor Houhynymns.

The three cartoonists were close personal friends and professional associates throughout their adult lives, and occasionally referenced each other in their strips.

The January 2007 estimated population of the island was 281, 000, while the figure for the March 1999 census, when most of the studies – though not the linguistic survey work referenced in this article – were performed, was about 261, 000 ( see under Corsica ).

The " wonderful year " referenced in the first verse is 1759-1760, during which British forces were victorious in several significant battles: the Battle of Minden on 1st of August 1759, the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( outside Quebec City ) on 13 September 1759 and the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, foiling a French invasion project.

There were 19 commonly referenced wakimono.

The water of the Murray flows through several lakes that fluctuate in salinity ( and were often fresh until recent decades ) including Lake Alexandrina and The Coorong before emptying through the Murray Mouth into the southeastern portion of the Indian Ocean, often referenced on Australian maps as the Southern Ocean, near Goolwa.

Oxfordians argue that at the time of the passage's composition ( pre-1589 ), the writers referenced were not in print, and interpret Puttenham's passage ( that the noblemen preferred to ' suppress ' their work to avoid the discredit of appearing learned ) to mean that they were ' concealed '.

The Romulans began as a revolutionary group of Vulcans, who were referenced as " those who march beneath the Raptor's wings " and refused to accept the Vulcan philosopher Surak's teachings of complete suppression of emotions.

The Romulans began as a revolutionary group of Vulcans who were referenced as " those who march beneath the Raptor's wings " and refused to accept the Vulcan philosopher Surak's teachings of complete suppression of emotions.

The Mud Hens were frequently referenced on the TV show M * A * S * H as the favorite team of Toledo native Cpl.

Although any Unicode character can be referenced by its numeric code point, some HTML document authors prefer to use these named entities instead, where possible, as they are less cryptic and were better supported by early browsers.

For example, in the brewing industry, the Plato table, which lists sucrose concentration by weight against true SG, were originally ( 20 ° C / 4 ° C ) that is based on measurements of the density of sucrose solutions made at laboratory temperature ( 20 ° C ) but referenced to the density of water at 4 ° C which is very close to the temperature at which water has its maximum density of ρ () equal to 0. 999972 g / cm < sup > 3 </ sup > ( or 62. 43 lb < sub > m </ sub >· ft < sup >− 3 </ sup >).

Files were referenced with unique file IDs rather than file names, and file names could be 255 characters long ( although the Finder only supported a maximum of 31 characters ).

The poor maps referenced in these agreements left Belgium with a claim on the western half of the country ; after several border skirmishes the final borders of the colony were not established until 1900.

If sovereigns since Tang were referenced using posthumous names, they were the last ones of their sovereignties or their reigns were short and unpopular.

They were considered to be evidence for the actions of saints such as Hilda of Whitby, a myth referenced in Sir Walter Scott's Marmion, and Saint Patrick, and were held to have healing or oracular powers.

Gardner Fox is referenced in the story, it is claimed by Barry Allen that the reason there were comics about the old Flash in his world was due to a psychic link between worlds.

Around the same time, the band were featured on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, and were referenced in an episode of the sitcom Roseanne as well as an episode of Absolutely Fabulous.

Over time, personal collections were referenced to establish the first large collection of Japanese poetry known as Man ' yōshū sometime after 759.

Ceremonies of the Order of the Crescent were referenced in formulating ceremonies for the fraternity.

The `` orphaned poems '' mentioned in the letter to Meynell comprised a group of five sonnets, which were published in the 1913 edition of Thompson's works under the heading `` Ad Amicam '', plus certain other completed pieces and rough drafts gathered together in one of the familiar exercise books.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

Copies of this letter were made avaliable to the press and public.

She held Jonathan's letter, his words burning like a brand, and knew suddenly that the bonds between them were severed.

The cover letter, questionnaire, and follow-up postcard were then revised into final form ( see Appendixes A, B, and C ).

Councilman William D. Schaefer ( D., Fifth ) said in a letter to Mayor Grady that plowing and salting crews should be dispatched earlier in storms and should be kept on the job longer than they were last month.

Both elements -- the caution about a meeting, the willingness eventually to hold one -- were reflected in a letter from the President which Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson brought back to Russia late in February.

To keep options available for lower case letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter " A " was placed in position 41 < sub > hex </ sub > to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

In German, words starting with sch-( constituting the German phoneme ) would be intercalated between words with initial sca-and sci-( all incidentally loanwords ) instead of this graphic cluster appearing after the letter s, as though it were a single letter — a lexicographical policy which would be de rigueur in a dictionary of Albanian, i. e. dh -, ë -, gj -, ll -, rr -, th -, xh-and zh-( all representing phonemes and considered separate single letters ) would follow the letters d, e, g, l, n, r, t, x and z respectively.

Alfred lamented in the preface to his translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care that " learning had declined so thoroughly in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English: and I suppose that there were not many beyond the Humber either ".

This letter and successive parts were distributed from Bangor ( see External Links below ): in an informal manner, as a kind of diary, Grothendieck explained and developed his ideas on the relationship between algebraic homotopy theory and algebraic geometry and prospects for a noncommutative theory of stacks.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

The Jews were directly subordinate to the governor starting in 1696 when they were forced to buy a protecting and shielding letter every 16 years from the governor.

The basic needs of the fort were met by a mixture of direct production, purchase and requisition ; in one letter, a request for money to buy 5, 000 modii ( measures ) of braces ( a cereal used in brewing ) shows that the fort bought provisions for a considerable number of people.

Ben Adret, with the approval of other prominent Spanish rabbis, sent a letter to the community at Montpellier proposing to forbid the study of philosophy to those who were less than twenty-five years of age, and, in spite of keen opposition from the liberal section, a decree in this sense was issued by Ben Adret in 1305.

Abbreviations were of two kinds: the use of a single letter for a single word,

Apollos and Paul were both in Ephesus at the time Paul wrote the letter ( 55 AD ); 16: 12 states Apollos was unwilling to go to Corinth yet at Paul's urging, but that he would later when he had an opportunity.

The brethren were pleased with the Emperor's letter, but Anthony did not pay any attention to it, and he said to them, " The books of God, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, commands us every day, but we do not heed what they tell us, and we turn our backs on them.

Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.