The Fable of the Bees
In Our Time: History
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What Did Manderville Write When He First Came to London?
He's certainly learning from a french tradition of scepticism about how you can have outward opinions that are about virtue or about religiosity. And he's got that from people like bale, tommas hobs, and also hobbs. He thinks the english are always discontent with their contemporary political sit they get a bit bored, and they pray to jove for a king. That's quite a cynical view, but human nature is passionate and unreasoned,. and uncontrollable and self interested and egotistical. There's a lot of these themes up again in his later writings as well if he'll express himself in a more coarse way.
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