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Complete the sentences based on your reading of this excerpt from "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift:
For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, being the principal
breeders of the nation, as well as our most dangerous enemies, and who stay at home on purpose with a design to deliver the kingdom to
the Pretender, hoping to take their advantage by the absence of so many good Protestants, who have chosen rather to leave their country,
than stay at home and pay tithes against their conscience to an episcopal curate,
The principal breeders" of the nation refer to
in the last line, the writer talks about the "good Protestants"

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Answer:

1&2

Explanation:

1. the Catholic population in poverty

He says that they principal breeders are the Papists. This means they are the Catholics. He uses the word Papists because it is a demeaning term for people who follow the Pope. The Pope is the spiritual leader of the Catholic church. He calls them principal breeders because he believes all they do is have children.

2. criticize the growing influence of the catholic population

By saying good Protestants, he is inferring that the Catholics are not good. Instead of staying where they'd be forced to financially support "an episcopal curate", they leave.

The "principal breeders" of the nation refer to poor Catholics.

What is the main idea in the "A Modest Proposal"?

The excerpt shows that the principal particular breed of the nation refer to the Catholic population in poverty. They are principal breeders because they don't do more than other breed and have a lot of new children who are in turn also catholic. These people basically support the catholic leaders who do with the country as they wish.

The good protestants are those people who left the country and made it turn into poor and uneducated. This is a little sarcastic because he doesn't really believe that they are good people because they abandoned instead of making the country a better place.

Also, the inference shows that the principal breeders" of the nation refer to the Catholic population in poverty.

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