Montesquieu: Of Laws in Relation to Establishments of Religion and External Polity

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* NOW - Buy this resource online! Click here * Of Laws in Relation to the Establishment of Religion and its External Polity1. Of Religious Sentiments.2. Of the Motives of Attachment to different Religions.3. Of Temples.4. Of the Ministers of Religion.5. Of the Bounds which the Laws ought to prescribe to the Riches of the Clergy.6. Of Monasteries.7. Of the Luxury of Superstition.8. Of the Pontificate.9. Of Toleration in point of Religion.10. The same Subject continued.11. Of changing a Religion.12. Of penal Laws.13. A most humble Remonstrance to the Inquisitors of Spain and Portugal.14. Why the Christian Religion is so odious in Japan.15. Of the Propagation of Religion. FOOTNOTES
   1. St. Cyril's Letter.
   2. This does not contradict what I have said in the last chapter of the preceding book: I here speak of the motives of attachment of religion, and there of the means of rendering it more general.
   3. This has been remarked over all the world. See, as to the Turks, the Missions of the Levant; the Collection of Voyages that Contributed to the Establishment of the East India Company, iii, part I, p. 201 on the Moors of Batavia; and Father Labat on the Mahometan Negroes, &c.
   4. The Christian and the Indian religions: these have a hell and a paradise, which the religion of Sintos has not.
   5. Entering the mosque of Bochara, he took the Koran, and threw it under his horse's feet. -- History of the Tartars, part III, p. 273.
   6. Ibid., p. 342.
   7. This disposition of mind has been communicated to the Japanese, who, as it may be easily proved, derive their origin from the Tartars.
   8. Annals, iii. 60.
   9. Numb., 35, 14.
   10. Ibid., 16, ff.
   11. De Abstinentia animal, ii, � 5.
   12. Lilius Giraldus, p. 726.
   13. A people of Siberia. See the account given by Mr. Everard Ysbrant Ides, in the Collection of Travels to the North, viii.
   14. Mr. Hyde.
   15. Laws, x.
   16. Rogum vino ne respergito -- Law of the Twelve Tables.
   17. Cicero derives these appropriate words from Plato, Laws, xii. -- ED.
   18. Laws, iv.
   19. I do not mean to speak in this chapter of the Christian religion; for, as I have elsewhere observed, the Christian religion is our chief blessing. See the end of the preceding chapter, and the Defence of the Spirit of Laws, part II.
   20. In the Collection of Voyages that Contributed to the Establishment of the East India Company, v, part 1, p. 192.
   21. The source of the blindness of the Jews is their not perceiving that the economy of the Gospel is in the order of the decrees of God and that it is in this light a consequence of his immutability.
   22. Book vi. 13.
   23. See Kempfer.
   24. Forbin, Memoirs.
   25. History of the Tartars, part V.
   26. Pirard, Travels, 27.