Montesquieu Quote

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.


The Spirit of Laws (ed. 2007)


They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable...

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable...

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable...

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable...