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The curious insect which thus serves as an animated sweetmeat for the Mexican children is the honey-ant of the Garden of the Gods; and it affords a beautiful example of Mandeville's charming paradox that personal vices are public benefits vitia privata humana commoda.
Goodman doesn't want it. It was brought here by mistake," said Marion, reassuringly putting her arm around the child. That any one could see such a cake and not want it was naturally beyond James Mandeville's powers of belief. He stood silent, looking from Marion to Mr. Goodman. "Of course you can have it. What do I want with it?" asked the old man, grimly.
Tom Payne himself never laboured harder to root all virtue out of society. Mandeville nor Voltaire never even laboured so much. Indeed! Ib. They were content with declaring their disbelief of a future state. In what part of their works? Can any wise man read Mandeville's Fable of the Bees, and not see that it is a keen satire on the inconsistency of Christians, and so intended. Ib. p. 71.
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