Category: Philosophy & Ethics
Page Preface, iii The Grumbling Hive; or Knaves turn'd Honest, 1 The Introduction, 12 An Inquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue, 13 Remarks, 23 An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, 155 A Search into the Nature of Society, 205 A Vindication of the Book, from the Aspersions...
Laws and government are to the political bodies of civil societies, what the vital spirits and life itself are to the natural bodies of animated creatures; and as those that stu...
5. book I mentioned, among other curious things, demonstrates what anglethe rudder must make with the keel, to render its influence upon the ship the most powerful. This has its merit; but a lad of fifteen, who has served a year of his time on board...
3. PART II.Considering the manifold clamours, that have been raised from several quarters, against the Fable of the Bees, even after I had published the vindication of it, many of my reade...
4. book I recommended.Hor. I confess, that once I thought nobody could have persuaded me to read it; but you managed me very skilfully, and nothing could have convinced me so well as the instance of...
1. PART I.Page Preface, iii The Grumbling Hive; or Knaves turn'd Honest, 1 The Introduction, 12 An Inquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue, 13 Remarks, 23 An Essay on Charity and Charity...