The fable of the bees: or, private vices, publick benefits / With an essay on charity and charity-schools, and a search into the nature of society.

  • Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.
Date:
1725
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The fable of the bees: or, private vices, publick benefits / With an essay on charity and charity-schools, and a search into the nature of society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Some Barents put out their Sons to good Trades very fuitable to their then prefent A- bilities, but happen to dye, or tail in the World, before the Children have finifli’d their Afprenticejhips, or are made fit for the Bujinefs they are to follow : A great many Young Men again on the other hand are handfomely provided for and fet up for themfelves, that yet (fome for want of Indu- firy or elfe a fufficient Knowledge in their Callings, others by indulging their Bkajures, and fome few by Misfortunes) are reduced to Poverty, and altogether unable to main¬ tain themfelves by the Bufinefs they were brought up to. It is impoffible but that the Negleds, Mifmanagements and Misfortunes I named, mult very frequently happen in Po- Eulous Places, and confequently great Num- ers of People be daily flung unprovided for into the wide World, how Rich and Po¬ tent a Commonwealth may be, or what Care foever a Government may take to hinder it. How ^ mult thefe People be difpos’d of ? The Sea, I know, and Armies, which the Wodd is feldom without, will take off fome. 'T'hofe that are honeft Drudges, and of a la¬ borious Temper, will become Journey-men to the Trades they are of, or enter into fome other Service: Such of them as ftudy’d and were fent to the Univerfity, may become Schoolmafters, Tutors, ancl fome few of them get into fome Office or other : But 8 what