| 1 | The Houyhnhnms have no letters, and consequently their knowledge is all traditional. | |
| 2 | By the time I had been there a year, I walked and neighed like the Houys. | |
| 3 | Here likewise the regulation of children is settled: as for instance, if a Houyhnhnm has two males, he changes one of them with another that has two females; | |
| 4 | Hui Yin king of the country: rational wise, hardworking, brave, kind and friendly, with integrity - of the ideal of humanity. | |
| 5 | So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms. |