Of Refinement in the Arts (1777) [ Concepts ]
… beer or porter. These indulgences are only vices, when they are pursued at the expence of some virtue, as liberality or charity; in like manner as they are follies, when for them a man ruins his fortune, and reduces himself to want and … without curing sloth and an indifference to others, you only diminish industry in the state, and add nothing to men's charity or their generosity. Let us, therefore, rest contented with asserting, that two opposite vices in a state may be … in that distant manner, which is peculiar to ignorant and barbarous nations." … Commerce … Refinement … Luxury … Charity … Corruption … Democracy … Disorder … Happiness … Taken from David Hume, Essays, Moral, and Political, and …
Commerce | Refinement | Luxury | Charity | Corruption | Democracy | Disorder | Happiness
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