...up to the wretched tree For crimes, which not deserv'd that fate, But to secure the rich and great. Thus every part was full of vice, Yet the whole mass...foreigners, And lavish of their wealth and lives, The balance of all other hives. Such were the blessings of that state; Their crimes couspir'd to make...

...which not deserv'd that fate, But to secure the rich and great. Thus every part was full of vice, 155 Yet the whole mass a paradise ; Flatter'd in peace,...foreigners, And lavish of their wealth and lives, The balance of all other hives. 160 Such were the blessings of that state ; Their crimes conspir'd...

...par la politique , se trouvait entièrement d'accord avec le vice : le tout était un vrai paradis : Thus every part was full of vice, Yet the whole mass a paradise. Mais un jour il arriva qu'un membre de cette société , enrichi de la manière la moins honnête ,...

...Its aim was to prove 'private vices public benefits.' The bee-hive of the Fable was one in which ' Every part was full of vice, • Yet the whole mass a paradise.' Anthony Collins had published, 1713, a 'Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the Rise and Growth...

...all cheats, the lawyers rogues, the physicians quacks,-the clergy hypocrites, the judges corrupt: ' Thus every part was full of vice, Yet the whole mass a paradise ; Flattered in peace and feared in wars They were th" esteem of foreigners. 1 The root of evil, avarice,...

...self-protection from each other. Our modern States, realizing, as they do, Mandeville's epigram : — " Every part was full of vice, Yet the whole mass a Paradise," would have appeared to a Greek as " Anarchy plus a Street Constable." A Greek lived for his State :...

...great. Thus ev'ry part was full of vice, Yet the whole mass a paradise ; Flattered in peace, and feared in wars, They were th' esteem of foreigners, And lavish of their wealth and lives, The balance of all other hives. Such were the blessings of that state : Their crimes conspired to make...

...Were ty'd up to the wretched Tree For Crimes, which not deserv'd that Fate, But to secure the Eich and Great. 155 Thus every Part was full of Vice, Yet...a Paradise Flatter'd in Peace, and fear'd in Wars, 3u tfjrem eig'nen fie. 93ei mager'm ©olbe Serjeíjrten atíe oieí unb prafjlten Ьоф Wit ifyrer...

...physicians, the clergy, the soldiers, the merchants, all prospered by various forms of cheating — Thus every part was full of vice, Yet the whole mass a Paradise. Luxury Employed a million of the poor, And odious pride a million more. When every one became honest...

...How unintentionally keen the lawless author of the " Fable of the Bees " was I Thus of society : " Every part was full of vice Yet the whole mass a paradise." And again : " Such were the blessings of that state, Their crimes conspired to make them great." moment...