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Excerpt from Montesquieu
Nal for a revolution, the presentiment of which was present in all hearts, and its causes appar ent in every event. The Persian Letters contain the germs of The Spirit Of the Laws. Montesquieu was thirty-two years old when he published these letters. His birth, education, and early mental development belong to the seventeenth century. The life and writings of no man better explain how a democratic revo lution, unexpected even by those who paved the way for it, came to succeed that reign of Louis XIV. Which seemed to have established the institution of monarchy in France upon imperishable foundations. Let us, then, con sider what Montesquieu was at the period when he composed his first work, and let us try to define the character of his genius before in quiring how that genius was revealed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
