The Fable of the Bees
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780878559978 (0878559973)
Publish date: June 1st 1989
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Edition language: English
A workmanlike poem followed by a very interesting political essay about "virtue" and "vice", and what those words really mean, and how essential they are for a prosperous society. In my reading of it, there are two main premises, both of which must have been controversial at the time. The first is t...