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book XX.: of laws in relation to commerce, considered in its nature and distinctions.

book XXI.: of laws relative to commerce, considered in the revolutions it has met with in the world.

book XXII.: of laws in relation to the use of money.

book XXIII.: of laws in the relation they bear to the number of inhabitants.

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book XXIV.: of laws as relative to religion, considered in itself, and in its doctrines.

chap. I.: of religion in general.

chap. II.: a paradox of mr. bayle’s.

chap. III.: that a moderate government is most agreeable to the christian religion, and a despotic government to the mahometan.

chap. IV.: consequences from the character of the christian religion, and that of the mahometan.

chap. V.: that the catholic religion is most agreeable to a monarchy, and the protestant to a republic.

chap. VI.: another of mr. bayle’s paradoxes.

chap. VII.: of the laws of perfection in religion.

chap. VIII.: of the connection between the moral laws and those of religion.

chap. IX.: of the essenes.

chap. X.: of the sect of stoics.

chap. XI.: of contemplation.

chap. XII.: of penances.

chap. XIII.: of inexpiable crimes.

chap. XIV.: in what manner religion has an influence on civil laws.

chap. XV.: how false religious are sometimes corrected by the civil laws.

chap. XVI.: how the laws of religion correct the inconveniencies of a political constitution.

chap. XVII.: the same subject continued.

chap. XVIII.: how the laws of religion have the effect of civil laws.

chap. XIX.: that it is not so much the truth or falsity of a doctrine which renders it useful or pernicious to men in civil government, as the use or abuse of it.

chap. XX.: the same subject continued.

chap. XXI.: of the metempsychosis.

chap. XXII.: that it is dangerous for religion to inspire an aversion for things in themselves indifferent.

chap. XXIII.: of festivals.

chap. XXIV.: of the local laws of religion.

chap. XXV.: the inconveniency of transplanting a religion from one country to another.

chap. XXVI.: the same subject continued.

book XXV.: of laws as relative to the establishment of religion and its external polity.

book XXVI.: of laws, as relative to the order of things on which they determine.

book XXVII.: of the origin and revolutions of the roman laws on successions.

book XXVIII.: of the origin and revolutions of the civil laws among the french.

book XXIX.: of the manner of composing laws.

book XXX.: theory of the feudal laws among the franks, in the relation they bear to the establishment of the monarchy.

book XXXI.: theory of the feudal laws among the franks, in the relation they bear to the revolutions of their monarchy.

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The Complete Works of Montesquieu. Electronic Edition.

Volume II.

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BOOK XXIV.: OF LAWS AS RELATIVE TO RELIGION, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF, AND IN ITS DOCTRINES.

CHAP. XII.: Of Penances.

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CHAP. XII.: Of Penances.

PENANCES ought to be joined with the idea of labour, not with that of idleness; with the idea of good, not with that of super-eminent; with the idea of frugality, not with that of avarice.

CHAP. XII.: Of Penances.