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1. Notes on Reading Montesquieu's underline Esprit des Loix /underline I. underline Of Laws in General /underline

Nothing can be more absurd than the assertion that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this World; for the most superficial knowledge of Natural History makes us admire the propriety and regularity with which every part of the Creation is composed, and reason sufficiently evinces that chance could not have been productive of Intelligent Beings.

From hence there must be a primitive reason, Laws are therefore the relations subsisting between it and different things, and the relations of these beings amongst themselves.

God is related to the Universe as Creator and Preserver; the laws by which He created all things, are those by which He preserves them. He acts according to these Rules because He knows them; He knows them because He made them; and He made them because they are relative to His Wisdom and Power.