RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of 'Mandeville Fable of the Bees Vol 2.' CUL-DAR80.B10. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua, edited by John van Wyhe RN2
NOTE: Mandeville, B. 1730. The fable of the bees. Part II. London: Roberts.
Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
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* Mandeville Fable of the Bees Vol 2.
P. 291. Social
Speculates about Man having become social from the danger of wild beasts; when it is objected that in this idea, Providence has no greater regard to our Species than it has to flies, and the spawn of fish, answers
" religion has nothing to do with it, but we are so full of our own species, and the excellency of it that we have no leisure seriously to consider the system of this earth.""
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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