https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-1/ Recent content in The Laws in General on Superphysics Hugo en https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-1/chapter-1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-1/chapter-1/ <p>Laws generally are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense, all beings have their laws.</p> <ul> <li>The Deity has his laws.</li> <li>The material world has its laws.</li> <li>Animals have their laws.</li> <li>Humans have their laws, created by their intelligence.</li> </ul> <p>Some people assert absurdly that the various effects in this world were spontaneously produced by a blind fatality.</p> https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-1/chapter-2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-1/chapter-2/ <p>Antecdent to the above-mentioned laws are those of nature.</p> <ul> <li>They get their force entirely from our frame and existence.</li> <li>To know these laws, we must see man before the establishment of society.</li> </ul> <p>The laws received in such a state would be those of nature. The most natural law is to love the Creator, though it is not the first in sequence.</p> https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-1/chapter-3/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-1/chapter-3/ <p>As soon as mankind enter into a state of society, they lose the sense of their weakness. Equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.</p> <p>Each particular society begins to feel its strength. This leads to a state of war between different nations.</p>