An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War
Bernard Mandeville
An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War
Bernard Mandeville · English
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An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War
Bernard Mandeville · English
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THE PREFACE. I take it for granted, that a Christian is not bound to believe any Thing to have been of Divine Institution, that has not been declared to be such in Holy Writ. Yet great Offence has been taken at an Essay, in the First Part of the Fable of the Bees, call'd An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue; notwithstanding the great Caution it is wrote with. Since then, it is thought Criminal to surmise, that even Heathen Virtue was of Human Invention, and the Reader, in the foll
An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War
Bernard Mandeville
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