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The Complete Works of Montesquieu. Electronic Edition.
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Volume I.
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BOOK XIV.: OF LAWS AS RELATIVE TO THE NATURE OF THE CLIMATE.
CHAP. I.: General Idea.

CHAP. I.: General Idea.

IF it be true, that the temper of the mind and the passions of the heart are extremely different in different climates, the laws ought to be relative both to the variety of those passions, and to the variety of those tempers.