"Mandeville's essay [The Fable of the Bees] was a clever and cynical defence of licence and selfishness."
— Bernard Mandeville

January 1, 1970

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William Ralph Inge, Studies of English Mystics. St Margaret's Lectures 1905 (1906), p. 129