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book I.: of laws in general.

book II.: of laws directly derived from the nature of government.

book III.: of the principles of the three kinds of government.

book IV.: that the laws of education ought to be relative to the principles of government.

book V.: that the laws, given by the legislator, ought to be relative to the principle of government.

book VI.: consequences of the principles of different governments with respect to the simplicity of civil and criminal laws, the form of judgements, and the inflicting of punishments.

book VII.: consequences of the different principles of the three governments, with respect to sumptuary laws, luxury, and the condition of women.

book VIII.: of the corruption of the principles of the three governments.

book IX.: of laws, in the relation they bear to a defensive force.

book X.: of laws, in the relation they bear to offensive force.

book XI.: of the laws which establish political liberty, with regard to the constitution.

book XII.: of the laws that form political liberty, as relative to the subject.

book XIII.: of the relation which the levying of taxes and the greatness of the public revenues have to liberty.

book XIV.: of laws as relative to the nature of the climate.

book XV.: in what manner the laws of civil slavery are relative to the nature of the climate.

book XVI.: how the laws of domestic slavery have a relation to the nature of the climate.

book XVII.: how the laws of political servitude have a relation to the nature of the climate.

book XVIII.: of laws in the relation they bear to the nature of the soil.

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book XIX.: of laws, in relation to the principles which form the general spirit, the morals, and customs, of a nation.

chap. I.: of the subject of this book.

chap. II.: that it is necessary people’s minds should be prepared for the reception of the best laws.

chap. III.: of tyranny.

chap. IV.: of the general spirit of mankind.

chap. V.: how far we should be attentive lest the general spirit of a nation be changed.

chap. VI.: that every thing ought not to be corrected.

chap. VII.: of the athenians and lacedæmonians.

chap. VIII.: effects of a sociable temper.

chap. IX.: of the vanity and pride of nations.

chap. X.: of the character of the spaniards and chinese.

chap. XI.: a reflection.

chap. XII.: of custom and manners in a despotic state.

chap. XIII.: of the behaviour of the chinese.

chap. XIV.: what are the natural means of changing the manners and customs of a nation.

chap. XV.: the influence of domestic government on the political.

chap. XVI.: how some legislators have confounded the principles which govern mankind.

chap. XVII.: of the peculiar quality of the chinese government.

chap. XVIII.: a consequence drawn from the preceding chapter.

chap. XIX.: how this union of religion, laws, manners, and customs, among the chinese, was effected.

chap. XX.: explication of a paradox relating to the chinese.

chap. XXI.: how the laws ought to have a relation to manners and customs.

chap. XXII.: the same subject continued.

chap. XXIII.: how the laws are founded on the manners of a people.

chap. XXIV.: the same subject continued.

chap. XXV.: the same subject continued.

chap. XXVI.: the same subject continued.

chap. XXVII.: how the laws contribute to form the manners, customs, and character, of a nation.

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The Complete Works of Montesquieu. Electronic Edition.

Volume I.

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BOOK XIX.: OF LAWS, IN RELATION TO THE PRINCIPLES WHICH FORM THE GENERAL SPIRIT, THE MORALS, AND CUSTOMS, OF A NATION.

CHAP. XI.: A Reflection.

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CHAP. XI.: A Reflection.

I have said nothing here with a view to lessen that infinite distance which must ever be between virtue and vice. God forbid that I should be guilty of such an attempt. I would only make my readers comprehend, that all political are not moral vices; and that all moral are not political vices; and that those, who make laws which shock the general spirit of a nation, ought not to be ignorant of this.

CHAP. XI.: A Reflection.