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 * launched idea of a divinely-ordered universe understandable by mathematics
+=== Jonathan Swift ===
+* 1667-1745
+* Irish satirist and social and religious critic
+* most famous for "Gulliver Travels" and "A Modest Proposal"
+** both works "satirized" (made fun of) English society
+* "A Modest Proposal" criticized British treatment of the Irish people
+** most famously proposed the solution to Irish poverty
+*** for the Irish to sell their babies to rich Englishmen to eat as food'
+* his first satire, "A Tale of a Tub" criticized different Christian churches and orthodoxies
+** the story tells of a father who gave a tunic each of his sons, under the condition that they could not change or alter it in any way
+** as the tunics go out of style, the sons attempt to interpret the father's instructions in such a way as to allow them to alter it<br />
 === Voltaire ===
 * 1694-1778