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===Defoe's ''The Generous Projector''=== It has also been argued that ''A Modest Proposal'' was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay ''The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children'' by Swift's rival [[Daniel Defoe]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Waters|first=Juliet|date=19 February 2009|title=A modest but failed proposal|url=http://www.montrealmirror.com/2009/021909/books1.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727224602/http://www.montrealmirror.com/a-modest-but-failed-proposal|archive-date=2020-07-27|access-date=10 January 2012|work=[[Montreal Mirror]]}}</ref>
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