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The Complete Works of Montesquieu. Electronic Edition.
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Volume II.
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BOOK XXIII.: OF LAWS IN THE RELATION THEY BEAR TO THE NUMBER OF INHABITANTS.
CHAP. XXVI.: Consequences.

CHAP. XXVI.: Consequences.

FROM all this we may conclude, that Europe is at present in a condition to require laws to be made

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in favour of the propagation of the human species. The politics of the ancient Greeks incessantly complain of the inconveniencies attending a republic, from the excessive number of citizens; but the politics of this age call upon us to take proper means to increase ours.