Consequences Of The 3 Principles Of Governments With Respect To Sumptuary Laws, Luxury and Women on Superphysics

New Consequences of the Principles of the three Governments

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LUXURY indicates the inequality of fortunes.

If the riches of a state are equally divided, there will be no luxury, because luxury is founded merely on the inconveniences from the labour of others.

The Luxury of China

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Chapter 6: The Luxury of China

SUMPTUARY laws might be necessary in some governments.

The population may grow so large because of the climate. The uncertainty of food might render a universal application to agriculture extremely necessary.

Public Continency

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SO many are the imperfections that attend the loss of virtue in women, and so greatly are their minds depraved when this principal guard is removed, that, in a popular state, public incontinency may be considered as the last of miseries, and as a certain fore-runner of a change in the constitution.

Sumptuary Laws among the Romans

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Public incontinence is the inseparable companion of luxury.

If we leave the motions of the heart at liberty, how shall we be able to restrain the weaknesses of the mind?