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蜜蜂的寓言：私人的恶德，公众的利益
1705年的一首寓言诗（《抱怨的蜂巢》），后来增补了散文评注和论文（1714年，1723年增订，1729年第二部）：一个变得诚实的繁荣蜂巢失去了贸易、技艺和力量，因为商业依靠欲望、虚荣和奢侈而存在。
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Mandeville published the poem “The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves Turn’d Honest” in 1705; in 1714 he reissued it as “The Fable of the Bees” with an “Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue” and prose remarks. The enlarged edition of 1723 added an essay against charity schools and was presented by the Grand Jury of Middlesex as a public nuisance; a second part in dialogue form followed in 1729. The fable tells of a prosperous hive full of vice that, made honest by Jove, loses its trade, arts and power. The book argued that commercial prosperity depends on pride, vanity and luxury and caused a long controversy; it was later read as an early account of the unintended social benefits of self-interest.
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