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have one eye pointing inward and the other upward , and they are so lost in thought that they must be reminded to pay attention to the world around them . Though they are greatly concerned with mathematics and with music , they have no practical applications for their learning . Laputa is the home of the king of Balnibarbri , the continent below it . Gulliver is permitted to leave the island and visit Lagado , the capital city of Balnibarbri . He finds the farm fields in ruin and the people living in apparent squalor . Gulliver ’ s host explains that the inhabitants follow the prescriptions of a learned academy in the city , where the scientists undertake such wholly impractical projects as extracting sunbeams from cucumbers . Later Gulliver visits Glubbdubdrib , the island of sorcerers , and there he speaks with great men of the past and learns from them the lies of history . In the kingdom of Luggnagg he meets the struldbrugs , who are immortal but age as though they were mortal and are thus miserable . From Luggnagg he is able to sail to Japan and thence back to England . Gulliver in the kingdom of the Houyhnhnms In the fourth part , Gulliver visits the land of the Houyhnhnms , a race of intelligent horses who are cleaner and more rational , communal , and benevolent ( they have , most tellingly , no words for deception or evil ) than the brutish , filthy , greedy , and degenerate humanoid race called Yahoos , some of whom
they have tamed — an ironic twist on the human-beast relationship . The Houyhnhnms are very curious about Gulliver , who seems to be both a Yahoo and civilized , but , after Gulliver describes his country and its history to the master Houyhnhnm , the Houyhnhnm concludes that the people of England are not more reasonable than the Yahoos . At last it is decided that Gulliver must leave the Houyhnhnms . Gulliver then returns to England , so disgusted with humanity that he avoids his family and buys horses and converses with them instead .
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