The Spirit of Laws - Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Google Books

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Precautions to be used in mo-
derate Governments
Regulations between Masters
and Slaves
ibid. 17. Of Enfranchisements

ibid.

6. Of Agriculture in warm Cli-16.

mates ...... ...... 229

8. An excellent Custom of China 18. Of Freedmen and Eunuchs

9. Means of encouraging Indus-

try
ibid.

10. Of the Laws relative to the

Sobriety of the People 231

11. Of the Laws relative to the

Distempers of the Climate

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6. Of Polygamy considered in

Of an Equality of Treatment

in case of many Wives 259

8. Of the Separation of Women

9. Of the connexion between

Domestic and Political Go-

10. The Principle on which the

Morals of the East are

founded .... .... ibid

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Of the Liberty of the Arabs,

and the Servitude of the

Tartars ........ ibid.

Of the Law of Nations, as

practised by the Tartars 286

The Civil Law of the Tartars

21.
- ibid.

22. Of a Civil Law of the German

23. Of the Regal Ornaments

among the Franks .. 292

24. Of the Marriages of the Kings

of the Franks ..... ibid.

25. Childeric...

26. Of the Time when the Kings

of the Franks became of age

27. The same Subject continued

28. Of adoption among the Ger-

29.

mans

Of the Sanguinary Temper of

the Kings of the Franks 296

Of the National Assemblies of

Of the authority of the Clergy

under the First Race. 297

Of Laws in Relation to the Princi-

ples which form the general Spirit,

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5. How far we should be atten- Of Laws in Relation to Commerce,

tive lest the general Spirit of

a Nation be changed.. ibid.

6. That every Thing ought not

to be corrected

7. Of the Athenians and Lace-

8. Effects of a Sociable Temper

9. Of the Vanity and Pride of

10. Of the Character of the Spa-

niards and Chinese

considered in its Nature and

2. Of the Spirit of Commerce 324

3. Ofthe Povertyofthe People325

4. Of Commerce in different Go-

5. Of Nations that have entered

into an Economical Com-

7. The Spirit of England, with

respect to Commerce

8. In what manner the Econo-

mical Commerce has been

sometimes restrained.. ibid.

Of the prohibition of Com-

10. An Institution adapted to

Economical Commerce 330

The same Subject

Of the Freedom of Commerce

What it is that destroys this

The Laws of Commerce con-

cerning the Confiscation of

11. A Reflexion

12. Of Customs and Manners in

a Despotic State

13. Of the Behaviour of the Chi-

14. What are the Natural Means

of Changing the Manners

and Customs of a Nation 305

15. The Influence of Domestic

Government on the Political

16. How some Legislators have

confounded the Principles

which govern Mankind ibid.

17. Of the Peculiar Quality of the

Chinese Government 308

18. A Consequence drawn from

the preceding Chapter 309 15.

19. How this Union of Religion,

Laws, Manners,and Customs,

amongst the Chinese was

20. Explication of a Paradox re-

lating to the Chinese ... 311

21. How the Laws ought to have

Relation to Manners, and

22. The same Subject continued

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Of seizing the Persons of

An excellent Law

17. A Law of Rhodes

18. Of the Judges of Commerce

19. That a Prince ought not to

engage himself in Commerce

20. The same Subject continued ib.

Of the Commerce of the No-

A singular Reflexion

bility in a Monarchy... ibid.

23. To what Nations Commerce is

THE SPIRIT OF LAWS.

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