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Paris, , iii. In these studiesof the emotions-specially in the first-mentioned type-there lay implicit the paradox that vices may be benefits. These anticipations, however, unlike Mandeville, usually put little stress on the social implications of thevalue of vice, being content to show how the individual could transmute the evil passions of his nature into personal virtue.

Half-Penny Sheet. S this little Poem was wrote with. I do not dignify these few looseLines with the Name of Poem, that I would have the Reader expect any Poetry in them, but barely because they are Rhime, and I am in reality puzzled what Name to give them; for they are neither Heroick nor Pastoral, Satyr,Burlesque nor Heroi-comick ; to be a Tale they want Probability, and the whole is rather too long for a Fable.

I This is cited from Pierre Logiqw, ou? Arnauld and P. Nicole], pt. T o do this, I 6rst slightly touch upon someof the Faults andCorruptions the several Professionsand Callings are gener- ally charged with. Now would I ask ifa good Citizen,in considera- tion of whathasbeensaid,might not assert, that dirty Streetsareanecessary Evil inseparable horn the Felicity of Lon- don,without being the least hindrance to the cleaning of Shoes, or sweepingof Streets, and consequentlywithoutany Prejudice eitherto the BZacAguard' or the Scaoingers.

But if, without any regard to the Interest or Happiness of theCity, the Question was put, What Place I thought most pleasant to walk in?

Fabk i. By Grand-Jury, with scandalous and W. Chancellor appear till nearly Angust Macdesfield, it will be re- for notuntilthe Post-Boy of membered see above, i. It must have been x On Monday, 12 Aug. Hxiv, n. Wherein the many 3 Of thisvindicationMande- false, scandalous and malicious ville elsewhere Lettcr to Dion, Objections of those Adwocates for pp.

The Fable of the Bees was first published in Further editions appeared in , and Part II of the Fable reproduced as volume 4 of the present facsimile collection was first published in Appendixes: Mandeville's family with genealogical table Description of the editions. Criticisms of the fable. Get The Fable of the Bees Books now! Abridged from the original text to read in an hour or so.

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