A Conversation for Julian of Norwich's World in a Nutshell: Life, the Universe, and Everything
Sin is profitable
Recumbentman Started conversation Jan 21, 2016
Julian quotes her vision-Jesus as saying sin is 'profitable', 'useful', or 'necessary'.
Was she presaging Mandeville's Fable of the Bees of 1705? Mandeville showed that a society composed entirely of honest people simply couldn't function.
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mandeville/bernard/bees/complete.html
(the original text begins about a sixth of the way down)
Sin is profitable
Recumbentman Posted Jan 22, 2016
Should have removed the s.
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mandeville/bernard/bees/complete.html
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