Having thus answered the only objection that can ever be raised against me as a traveller, i here take a final leave of all my courteous readers, and return to enjoy my own speculations in my little garden at redriff; to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which i learned among the houyhnhnms; to instruct the yahoos of my own family, as far as i shall find them docile animals; to behold my figure often in a glass, and thus, if possible, habituate myself by time to tolerate the sight of a human creature . . which excerpt from the passage above indicates best that swift is satirizing the elevation of reason above all other virtues? “i here take a final leave of all my courteous readers” “return to enjoy my own speculations in my little garden at redriff” “apply those excellent lessons of virtue which i learned among the houyhnhnms” “having thus answered the only objection that can ever be raised against me as a traveller”