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book I.: of laws in general.

book II.: of laws directly derived from the nature of government.

book III.: of the principles of the three kinds of government.

book IV.: that the laws of education ought to be relative to the principles of government.

book V.: that the laws, given by the legislator, ought to be relative to the principle of government.

book VI.: consequences of the principles of different governments with respect to the simplicity of civil and criminal laws, the form of judgements, and the inflicting of punishments.

book VII.: consequences of the different principles of the three governments, with respect to sumptuary laws, luxury, and the condition of women.

book VIII.: of the corruption of the principles of the three governments.

book IX.: of laws, in the relation they bear to a defensive force.

book X.: of laws, in the relation they bear to offensive force.

book XI.: of the laws which establish political liberty, with regard to the constitution.

book XII.: of the laws that form political liberty, as relative to the subject.

book XIII.: of the relation which the levying of taxes and the greatness of the public revenues have to liberty.

book XIV.: of laws as relative to the nature of the climate.

book XV.: in what manner the laws of civil slavery are relative to the nature of the climate.

book XVI.: how the laws of domestic slavery have a relation to the nature of the climate.

book XVII.: how the laws of political servitude have a relation to the nature of the climate.

book XVIII.: of laws in the relation they bear to the nature of the soil.

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book XIX.: of laws, in relation to the principles which form the general spirit, the morals, and customs, of a nation.

chap. I.: of the subject of this book.

chap. II.: that it is necessary people’s minds should be prepared for the reception of the best laws.

chap. III.: of tyranny.

chap. IV.: of the general spirit of mankind.

chap. V.: how far we should be attentive lest the general spirit of a nation be changed.

chap. VI.: that every thing ought not to be corrected.

chap. VII.: of the athenians and lacedæmonians.

chap. VIII.: effects of a sociable temper.

chap. IX.: of the vanity and pride of nations.

chap. X.: of the character of the spaniards and chinese.

chap. XI.: a reflection.

chap. XII.: of custom and manners in a despotic state.

chap. XIII.: of the behaviour of the chinese.

chap. XIV.: what are the natural means of changing the manners and customs of a nation.

chap. XV.: the influence of domestic government on the political.

chap. XVI.: how some legislators have confounded the principles which govern mankind.

chap. XVII.: of the peculiar quality of the chinese government.

chap. XVIII.: a consequence drawn from the preceding chapter.

chap. XIX.: how this union of religion, laws, manners, and customs, among the chinese, was effected.

chap. XX.: explication of a paradox relating to the chinese.

chap. XXI.: how the laws ought to have a relation to manners and customs.

chap. XXII.: the same subject continued.

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chap. XXIII.: how the laws are founded on the manners of a people.

chap. XXIV.: the same subject continued.

chap. XXV.: the same subject continued.

chap. XXVI.: the same subject continued.

chap. XXVII.: how the laws contribute to form the manners, customs, and character, of a nation.

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BOOK XIX.: OF LAWS, IN RELATION TO THE PRINCIPLES WHICH FORM THE GENERAL SPIRIT, THE MORALS, AND CUSTOMS, OF A NATION.

CHAP. XXIII.: How the Laws are founded on the Manners of a People.

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CHAP. XXIII.: How the Laws are founded on the Manners of a People.

AT the time when the manners of the Romans were pure, they had no particular law against the embezzlement of the public money. When this crime began to appear, it was thought so infamous, that, to be condemned to restore In simplum. ^†697 what they had taken, was considered as a sufficient disgrace: for a proof of this, see the sentence of L. Scipio. Livy, l. 38. ^†698

CHAP. XXIII.: How the Laws are founded on the Manners of a People.