In this council was resumed their [the Houyhnhnms] old debate, and indeed the only debate that ever happened in their country . . . . Which description applies best to what Swift hints at in the passage above? that councils are the most productive way for citizens to discuss and settle issues that the Houyhnhnms are inefficient because they repeat the same debate and never resolve it that the Houyhnhnms like to gather together and speak about their families and personal lives that debates successfully bring together creatures who have different ideas and different backgrounds