The separation of women, the enclosure, the eunuchs, the locks, render the thing so difficult that the law judges it impossible; besides, the same sword would exterminate the mother and the child.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic separation eunuchs
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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