A Letter to Dion
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A Letter to Dion is by Bernard Mandeville, dated 1732 on its title page, with an introduction by Jacob Viner. A passage says it was Mandeville's central thesis, expressed by the motto Private Vices, Publick Benefits, of The Fable of the Bees. A passage says Mandeville professes also the extreme rigorist doctrine that whatever is not virtue is vice.
The text quotes the line "Tho' I have shewn the Way to Worldly Greatness, I have, without Hesitation, preferr'd the Road that leads to Virtue." A speaker says no Mathematical Demonstration is more true than that to prohibit Navigation, and all Commerce with Strangers, is the most effectual Way to keep out Vice and Luxury. A numbered list of other titles names, among others, Henry Gally's A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings (1725) and Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).
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- Bernard Mandeville
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- 51
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