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When the master horse expresses bafflement as to why lawyers would engage in such loathsome work, Gulliver tries to explain the concept of money and the human thirst for it. This leads to a description of what kinds of things money can acquire, which leads Gulliver to explain England’s huge trade in foreign food and drink, despite the fact that England’s own soil is capable of producing enough food to feed its entire population. Gulliver goes on to describe statesmen, explaining that the chief minister of state is a person completely consumed by his hunger for power and thoroughly dishonest. Thus, the people around him always believe exactly the opposite of what the chief of state says. The chief of state rises to his position either by murdering female relatives, betraying his predecessor, or by lambasting “the corruptions of the court.” The chiefs of state control their councils through bribery and every member of court learns “insolence, lying, and bribery.” When the master horse remarks that Gulliver’s superior appearance to the Yahoos of the Houyhnhnms must bespeak his nobility. Gulliver corrects this impression, explaining that, in Europe, all nobles look sick, sallow, and weak because they are raised “in idleness and luxury” and debauchery. Thus, in Europe, “a healthy robust appearance” always signifies a low birth like Gulliver’s.