In this very cheap sarcasm on the Roman Catholic Church, Swift falls as much below the usual sincerity, as below the usual breadth, of his satire. Any sarcasm based upon the adoption of certain formal methods of address applies equally to all Churches which recognise a graded hierarchy, and are established by law. The Episcopal Church of England was as much, or as little, open to the sarcasm as that of Rome: and Swift, of all men, was least disposed to bate any of the privileges of the clergy.