Laws Which Form a Nation's General Spirit, Morals, and Customs on Superphysics

The Spirit of Mankind

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Chapter 2: People’s Minds should be prepared for the Reception of the best Laws.

The tribunal of Varus was the most insupportable to the Germans.

It was erected by Justinian amongst the Lazi to proceed against the murderers of their king, appeared to them as an affair most horrid and barbarous.

The Laws of an Aristocracy, Monarchy, Despotism

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Chapter 6: Everything Should not be corrected

Let them but leave us as we are, said a gentleman of a nation which had a very great resemblance to that we have been describing, and nature will repair whatever is amiss.

The Laws of an Aristocracy, Monarchy, Despotism

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Chapter 10: The Character of the Spaniards and Chinese

The characters of the several nations are formed of virtues and vices, of good and bad qualities. From the happy mixture of these, great advantages result, and frequently where it would be least expected; there are others whence great evils arise — evils which one would not suspect.

The Laws of an Aristocracy, Monarchy, Despotism

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Chapter 13: The Behaviour of the Chinese

China is the place where the customs of the country can never be changed.

Their women being absolutely separated from the men. Their customs, like their morals, are taught in the schools.

The Laws of an Aristocracy, Monarchy, Despotism

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Chapter 17: The peculiar Quality of the Chinese Government

The legislators of China went further.

They confounded their religion, laws, manners, and customs; all these were morality, all these were virtue.

Why The Chinese Cheat

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Chapter 19: How this Union of Religion, Laws, Manners, and Customs among the Chinese was effected

The principal object of government which the Chinese legislators had in view was the peace and tranquillity of the empire.

How the Laws Should Relate to Manners and Customs

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Chapters 21-22: How the Laws Should Relate to Manners and Customs

It is only singular institutions which thus confound laws, manners, and customs — things naturally distinct and separate; but though they are in themselves different, there is nevertheless a great relation between them.

How the Laws contribute to form the Manners, Customs, and Character of a Nation

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The customs of an enslaved people are a part of their servitude, those of a free people are a part of their liberty.

I have spoken in the eleventh book37 of a free people, and have given the principles of their constitution: let us now see the effects which follow from this liberty, the character it is capable of forming, and the customs which naturally result from it.