"Mandeville, the buffoon and sophister of the alehouse."
— Bernard Mandeville

January 1, 1970

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James Mackintosh, 'Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy, chiefly during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', The Miscellaneous Works of The Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Vol. I (1846), p. 70