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...society, launching broadsides against the rising tide of luxury that was seen as at odds with a Christian ethic, at the same time there was a stronger current of thought, evident in the writings of Bernard Mandeville...
...Viscount Mandeville “disappeared into a netherworld of partying, gaming, and drinking from which only self-interest and a need to stay ahead of his creditors would occasionally extricate him”....
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