Observing that the title creatures "lived like men" and "wanted dice, yet they had kings," this work describes a nation in which "every part was full of vice / yet the whole mass a paradise," until it is undone by Jove's pledge to rid it of Fraud.
In its final version, this work came bundled with a set of six dialogues in which Cleomenes explicates the meaning of this work to Horatio, as well as several essays, including "An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue" and "An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools." George Berkeley's Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher was largely a response to this work, which its author would later defend in A Letter to Dion. In one section of this work, Justice is described as departing on a cloud, while another describes soldiers who would stay home for double pay and kings that were "knavishly cheated by their own ministry." Observing that the title creatures "lived like men" and "wanted dice, yet they had kings," this work describes a nation in which "every part was full of vice / yet the whole mass a paradise," until it is undone by Jove's pledge to rid it of Fraud. Subtitled "Private Vices, Public Benefits," for 10 points, identify this philosophical poem, a meditation on self-interest whose final section notes "Fools only strive / To make a great and honest hive," and the most famous work of Bernard de Mandeville.
In its final version, this work came bundled with a set of six dialogues in which Cleomenes explicates the meaning of this work to Horatio, as well as several essays, including "An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue" and "An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools."
The Fable of the Bees