Gulliver and his Master Horse eventually come to the conclusion that Houyhnhnmland Yahoos are preferable to European Yahoos because, with Houyhnhnmland Yahoos, what you see is what you get. European Yahoos share all the same vicious and terrible qualities that the Houyhnhnmland Yahoos possess -- greed, lust, violence, a general lack of common sense or intelligence, and so forth -- however, the filthy and disgusting exteriors of Houyhnhnmland Yahoos match their terrible and unscrupulous exteriors. European Yahoos, on the other hand, try to hide their true, disgusting, natures under a facade of cleanliness and politeness. European Yahoos may look and smell and seem better than their Houyhnhnmland counterparts, but they are just as awful, and so their appearances are really deceiving. This makes Houyhnhnmland Yahoos better, in a sense, because they do not hide their natures in this way. As a European Yahoo, then, this makes Houyhnhnmland Yahoos better than Gulliver.
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