"They who assert that a blind fatality produced……" — Baron de Montesquieu
"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings."
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Baron de Montesquieu
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