{"id":23982,"date":"2011-06-17T13:55:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=23982"},"modified":"2011-06-17T13:55:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T17:55:14","slug":"the-fable-of-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/06\/17\/the-fable-of-the-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Fable of the Bees”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Further to our previous post, here’s “The Moral” of Mandeville’s\u00a0The Fable of the Bees. <\/em>The complete text of the poem can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
\nTo make a Great an honest Hive.
\nT’ enjoy the World’s Conveniencies,
\nBefamed in War, yet live in Ease
\nWithout great Vices, is a vain
\nEutopia seated in the Brain.
\nFraud, Luxury, and Pride must live;
\nWhilst we the Benefits receive.
\nHunger’s a dreadful Plague, no doubt,
\nYet who digests or thrives without?
\nDo we not owe the Growth of Wine
\nTo the dry, crooked, shabby Vine?
\nWhich, whilst its Shutes neglected stood,
\nChoak’d other Plants, and ran to Wood;
\nBut blest us with its Noble Fruit;
\nAs soon as it was tied, and cut:
\nSo Vice is benefcial found,
\nWhen it’s by Justice lopt, and bound;
\nNay, where the People would be great,
\nAs necessary to the State,
\nAs Hunger is to make ’em eat.
\nBare Vertue can’t make Nations live
\nIn Splendour; they, that would revive A Golden Age, must be as free,
\nFor Acorns, as for Honesty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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