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18.11.2020 • 
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Read this excerpt from Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. “So a year after Lent, the markets will be more glutted than usual. This is because the number of Catholic infants is at least three times greater in this kingdom than that of Protestants. So my plan will have the extra advantage of decreasing the number of Catholics among us.”
What social problem is Swift satirizing in this passage?

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