1)At the beginning of the passage, taken from Chapter 11 of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Houyhnhnms are described as strong, beautiful, wise, and fast horses, full of virtues and intelligence.
2) Gulliver never refers to them as animals or horses, but as his “masters”, his “friends”, or “amiable persons”. Gulliver venerates them and admits that the only valuable things he has learned in his life are those he has learned from his masters.
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4)However, a sense of awe, together with love and gratefulness, gradually grew in him. This is the reason why they consider him different from the rest of his species.