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Bernard Mandeville

1670-1733


1714 | Bernard Mandeville [Bernard de Mandeville], "The Very Poor Liv'd Better than the Rich Before," Remark P [Transcribed from the 9th ed, Edinburgh, 1755] in The Fable of the Bees, [Originally published as the English poem, The Grumbling Hive, 1705; First Published with Remarks as The Fable of the Bees, 1714] 6th ed. (London, 1729).

Fable of the Bees

Remark P, The Very Poor Liv'd Better that the Rich Before

I have often thought, if it was not for this Tyranny which Custom usurps over us, that Men of any tolerable Good-nature could never be reconcil'd to the killing of so many Animals for their daily Food.

When a Creature has given such convincing and undeniable Proofs of the Terrors upon Descartes so inur'd to Blood, as not to refute, by his Commiseration, the Philosophy of that vain Reasoner?


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[1689-1745] Augustan Period Age of [Alexander] Pope
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Against Cruelty to Animals
[1662-1719] Joseph Addison
[1690-1743] Father Bougeant
[1692-1752] Joseph Butler
[1697-1753] James Foster
[1682-1756] John Hildrop
[1632-1704] John Locke
[1670-1733] Bernard Mandeville
[1688-1744] Alexander Pope
[1714-1763] William Shenstone
[1700-1748] James Thomson
[1630-1694] John Tillotson
[1634-1703] Thomas Tryon
[1667-1752] William Whitson


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Antiquity-Middle Ages
Ancient Animal Rights Law
Early Prohibitions-Middle Ages
[BCE-3rdc.] Mythical-Divine Origin; Antiquity—Classical Literature
[3rdc.-1485] Early Church Fathers, Old-Middle English Period

Renaissance
Early Anti-Cruelty Legislation
[1485-1660] English Renaissance

Enlightenment
Articles-Letters-Enlightenment
Pleas for Laws to Protect Animals
[1660-1689] Restoration
[1689-1745] Augustan Age-Pope
[1745-1785] Age of Sensibility

Romantic Age
Articles-Letters-Romantic Age
Modern Legislative Beginnings
[1785-1798] Burns-Cowper
[1798-1806] Wordsworth
[1806-1837] Byron, Martin's Act

Victorian Age
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Anti-Cruelty, Anti-Vivisection Laws
[1837-1876] Early Victorian Age
[1876-1901] Late Victorian Age

Early 20th Century
Articles-Letters-Early 20th
Continuing Animal Protection Law
[1901-1914] Edwardian Age
[1914-1945] Modern Period