The nature of human laws is to be subject to all the accidents that occur and to vary as men’s wills change, whereas the nature of the laws of religion is never to vary. Human laws enact about the good; religion, about the best.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic religion change
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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