As the spirit of religion is to lead us to exert effort to perform great and difficult things, a thing must not be judged natural for having been consecrated by a false religion.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic religion effort
Date 1748
Language English
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Note Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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