Consequently, the women found that Balnibarbian men had more to offer than the Laputian men, and they became adulterous. These reasons conclude that Swift felt that abstract philosophers" reason for living, in the age of enlightenment, was so pointless that it lead to the decay of morality and life itself.
In Gulliver's visit to Balnibarbi, Swift pleads that one should remember the important things in life (family, love, religion) rather than aspiring to improve human life. The whole island of Balnibarbi holds ownership to only one flourishing estate, which uses passed-down ancient methods of agriculture. Unfortunately, the remainder of the island was experimented on with new scientific and theoretical schemes, which left it eroded and barren. After observing this, Gulliver learns that traditional methods, although sometimes impractical, can be much more productive than scientific methods. Swift then demonstrates how experiments and new ideas are worthless when there is no use for them in every day life. "His [Scientist] Employment from his first coming into .
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the Academy, was an Operation to reduce human Excrement to its original Food, by separating several parts, removing the Tincture which it receives from the Gall, making .
the Odour exhale, and scrumming off the capital Saliva" (Swift 135). In addition to this absurd experiment, another scientist spent eight years trying to extract sunshine from cucumbers in order to give warmth to royal gardens, and explained that he only needed eight more years to complete the project. In another attempt for Swift to satirize scientific knowledge, he creates an academy in which all the genius minds in Balnibarbi were brought together in order to make the perfect world; however, they ended up destroying the whole island with pointless desires. "There was a most ingenious Architect who had contrived a new Method for building Houses, by beginning at the Roof, and working downwards to the Foundation; which he justified to me by the like Practice of those two prudent Insects the Bee and the Spider" (Swift 136).
