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The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Public Benefits

The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Public Benefits

by Bernard Mandeville

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Author
Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733
Title
The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
Credits
Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
BJ: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Ethics, Social usages, Etiquette, Religion
Subject
Charity-schools -- Early works to 1800
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 57260
Release Date
June 4, 2018
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.CONTENTS.
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.THE GRUMBLING HIVE: OR, KNAVES TURN’D HONEST. — THE MORAL.
  5. 5.THE INTRODUCTION.
  6. 6.AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF MORAL VIRTUE.
  7. 7.REMARKS.
  8. 8.AN ESSAY ON CHARITY, AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS.
  9. 9.A SEARCH INTO THE NATURE OF SOCIETY.
  10. 10.A VINDICATION OF THE Book, from the Aspersions contained in a Presentment of the Grand Jury of Middlesex, And an Abusive Letter to Lord C——
  11. 11.PART II.
  12. 12.PREFACE.
  13. 13.THE FIRST DIALOGUE. BETWEEN HORATIO, CLEOMENES, and FULVIA.
  14. 14.THE SECOND DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORATIO AND CLEOMENES
  15. 15.THE THIRD DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORATIO AND CLEOMENES.
  16. 16.THE FOURTH DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORATIO AND CLEOMENES.
  17. 17.THE FIFTH DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORATIO AND CLEOMENES.
  18. 18.THE SIXTH DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORATIO AND CLEOMENES
  19. 19.INDEX.
  20. 20.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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