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The Complete Works of Montesquieu. Electronic Edition.
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Volume II.
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BOOK XXIV.: OF LAWS AS RELATIVE TO RELIGION, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF, AND IN ITS DOCTRINES.
CHAP. IX.: Of the Essenes.

CHAP. IX.: Of the Essenes.

THE Essenes†359 made a vow to observe justice to mankind, to do no ill to any person, upon whatsoever account, to keep faith with all the world, to hate injustice, to command with modesty, always to side with truth, and to fly from all unlawful gain.