The remaining men can preserve the spirit of work and industry; they can seek to undo their misfortunes and to become more industrious by their calamity itself. An almost incurable ill is seen when depopulation is of long standing because of an internal vice and a bad government. Men there have perished from an imperceptible and habitual illness
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic illness government
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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