How can friendship and benevolence be the two principal

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How can friendship and benevolence be the two principal virtues of the Houyhnhnms, who "have no fondness for their colts or foals"? Indeed the Houyhnhnms who "preserve decency and civility in the highest degree," have peculiar relations with those closest to them. How does Swift explain this?

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