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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" to .

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The principle breeders refers to poor Catholics. They are principal breeders because they don't do much other than breed and have a lot of new children who are in turn also catholic. These people thus support the catholic leaders who do with the country as they wish.

The good protestants are the people who left the country and left it too poor and uneducated. This is a bit satirical because he doesn't really believe that they are good people because they abandoned instead of making the country a better place.

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

How is the inference deduced?

It should be noted that the the writer talks about the "good Protestants" to criticize the growing influence of the Catholic population.

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

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