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The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
Bernard Mandeville
Private vices, public benefits: Mandeville's scandalous equation set the eighteenth century on fire. His fable of the grumbling hive, with the essays and vindication that followed, argues that prosperity grows from the very appetites moralists condemn. Denounced by courts and philosophers alike, and never quite refuted. The most dangerous book of its age, still buzzing.
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26 chapters
- 1CONTENTS.
- 2PREFACE.
- 3THE GRUMBLING HIVE: OR, KNAVES TURN’D HONEST.
- 4THE MORAL.
- 5THE INTRODUCTION.
- 6AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF MORAL VIRTUE.
- 7REMARKS.
- 8AN ESSAY ON CHARITY, AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS.
- 9A SEARCH INTO THE NATURE OF SOCIETY.
- 10A VINDICATION OF THE Book, from the Aspersions contained in a Presentment of the Grand Jury of Middlesex, And an Abusive Letter to Lord C——
- 11THE FABLE OF THE BEES. PART II.
- 12PREFACE.
- 13THE FIRST DIALOGUE. BETWEEN HORATIO, CLEOMENES, and FULVIA.
- 14THE SECOND DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORATIO AND CLEOMENES
- 15THE THIRD DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORATIO AND CLEOMENES.
- 16THE FOURTH DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORATIO AND CLEOMENES.
- 17THE FIFTH DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORATIO AND CLEOMENES.
- 18THE SIXTH DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORATIO AND CLEOMENES
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