A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick (Eng. A Modest Proposal: In order to prevent that the children of the poor in Ireland their fall parents or burden to the state, and around it beneficial to use for the general public. ) from 1729 is a well known satire of Jonathan Swift ( 1667-1745 ).

To solve overpopulation, poverty and crime in Ireland, he proposes is to use Irish babies as food and hit by export profit. Swift oversubscribed then discussed as well various proposals, such as the poor along the lines of a corporation to organize, or the practice to regard people as a resource. The title alludes to Bernard de Mandeville vermutliclich, A Modest polemic of Public brothels Or an Essay on the fornication as it is now practiced in the United Kingdom from 1724 to.