The good can have another object because there are several goods, but the best is one alone and can, therefore, never change. One can certainly change laws because they are thought to be good only, but the institutions of religion are always presumed to be 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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