Montesquieu, Baron de . The Spirit of the Laws
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20. The End of this Book.

    I should be glad to inquire into the distribution of the three powers, in all the moderate governments we are acquainted with, in order to calculate the degrees of liberty which each may enjoy. But we must not always exhaust a subject, so as to leave no work at all for the reader. My business is not to make people read, but to make them think.



Book XII.
Of the Laws That Form Political Liberty, in Relation to the Subject.