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Book 5
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It is difficult to know how to place Montesquieu - if you're the kind of person who likes to . Historian, political philosopher, , jurist or, if you think the Persian Letters a novel, a novelist - he was all these things. Perhaps, as some have, he could be placed among that almost extinct species, the man of . The books that make up The Spirit of the Laws have had the most on later thinkers, and in them, as in his equally great Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans, he makes his underlying purpose clear. It is to make the random, apparently meaningless variety of events understandable; he wanted to find out what the historical truth was. His starting point then was this almost endless variety of morals, , ideas, laws and institutions and to make some sense out of them.
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