“ 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
Author | Montesquieu |
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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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