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Notes on Reading [[underlinel'Esprit des Loix Chap. I. of. the Relation of Laws to different Beings Laws in their most general signification, are the necessary Relations resulting from the nature of things. Those who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this World, are highly absurd; for what can be more so, than the pretending that a blind fatality could be productive of Intelligent Beings. There is then a primitive reason, and Laws are the Relations subsisting between it and different beings, and the Relations of these beings among 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.