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What sort of satire was A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift?

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During this period he wrote The Battle of the Books, in which he defended Temple's contention that the ancients were superior to the moderns in literature and learning, and A Tale of a Tub, a satire on religious excesses.

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