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of confusion accumulated by his predecessors
A great part of this heap he has contributed
to remove. The husks of Montesquieu are
Dainties to our Author.

In Montesquieu he had found as follows.
"All beings have their Laws. The Deity
"has its laws. The natural world has
"its laws: The intelligences superior to
"man have their laws: The Beasts
"have their laws: Man has his laws".† † Spirit of Laws. B.I. Ch. 1.
and again - "Man as a material being
"is governed, like the other sorts of bodies
"by Laws that are invariable: as an
"intelligent being, he violates without ceasing
"those which the Deity hath established –"

‡ †Montesquieu had talked of the "Laws" which "God has", but he had not talked of Montesquieu had given his definition of
laws:⊞ ⊞ which definition, our Author not understanding any more than any body else, had passed over. Montesquieu he had given called them. The relations
that derive from the nature of things.
which Montesquieu our Author
Montesquieu had given has no meaning Thus Montesquieu had defined them: I
am sorry for it: but he had given them
no meaning: but not having given them
a meaning, he had not given them meanings
that were opposite.

⊞⊞ In what is to be ascribed What follows in this Montesquieu had said some things upon the
subject, which were brilliant and terrible without being

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