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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Nationality of Author:
"Dutch"
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Religion of Author:
"Materialist or Mortalist"
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"Plant"
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Work title:
"The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits."
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Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"That these two Passions, in which the Seeds of most Virtues are contained, are Realities in our Frame, and not imaginary Qualities, is demonstrable from the plain and different Effects, that in spite of our Reason are produced in us as soon as we are affected with either."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)