I’ll be reading the full text of the satirical essay by Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal, written in the year 1729.
"For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick."
Find the full text of this essay here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
And more info about Jonathan Swift here: