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1. Notes on Reading underline l'Esprit des Loix /underline Chap. I. Of the Relation of Laws underline to different Beings /underline

Laws in their most general signification, are the necessary relations resulting from the underline nature /underline of things.

Those who assert that underline a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this World, /underline are highly absurd; for what can be more so, than the pretending that a blind fatality could be underline productive /underline 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 underline Beings /underline among themselves.

God is related to the Universe as Creator, and Preserver; the Laws by which He Created all underline things [/underline]] are those by which He preserves them. As the World tho' formed by the motion of matter and void of understanding, subsits through so long a succession of Ages, its motions must certainly be directed by invariable underline Laws. /underline catchword The /catchword