In commercial countries where many people have only their art, the state is often obliged to provide for the needs of the old, the sick, and the orphaned.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic art state
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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