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Gulliver, as a human Englishman, is operating from the perspective that every civil society must be organized by human beings. He enters prepared to greet human inhabitants with human gifts. This scene juxtaposes the perspectives of Gulliver, the reader, and the horses. Gulliver and the reader, who has seen everything through Gulliver’s eyes, consider the grotesque animals he met on the beach to be beasts. Yet the horses have all along seen no essential difference between Gulliver and the Yahoos. As they present their perspective, Gulliver suddenly realizes the errors of his own view—though the Yahoos are disgusting and crude, they are in fact humans. This exchange is a perspective-widening one for both Gulliver and the horses. Whereas Gulliver previously considered civility to be a human characteristic, he is now witnessing dignity and civilized behavior among horses. Whereas the horses previously considered humans to be carnivorous beasts, they are now witnessing a human being refusing meat and acting politely. The position is significant—in this society, Gulliver is situated in between the beastly humans and the genteel horses