Consider the following passage:

I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the hundred and twenty thousand children already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one-fourth part to be males; which is more than we allow to sheep, black cattle or swine.

Why might Swift have included this passage?

A. To criticize a certain way of thinking about the poor
B. To show that the narrator thinks of the children of the poor as a kind of livestock
C. To show the reader that the narrator is not a decent person
D. All of the above

Question

Consider the following passage:

I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the hundred and twenty thousand children already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one-fourth part to be males; which is more than we allow to sheep, black cattle or swine.

Why might Swift have included this passage?

 		A.	To criticize a certain way of thinking about the poor
 		B.	To show that the narrator thinks of the children of the poor as a kind of livestock
 		C.	To show the reader that the narrator is not a decent person
 		D.	All of the above