He defended the Danish absolutist monarchy against Enlightenment criticism, writing a polemic against Montesquieu's " De l'esprit des lois " in 1765.
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While the analysis in " De l'esprit des lois " is much more subtle than these later writers perceive, many of his specific claims lack rigour to modern readers.
3.
They sketch analyses that will later be developed in " L Esprit des lois " for many subjects such as the types of powers, the influence of climate and the critique of colonization.
4.
His comparative approach is obvious in the following excerpt from Chapter III of Book I of his masterpiece, " De l'esprit des lois " ( 1748; first translated by Thomas Nugent, 1750 ):
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Other names that have been mentioned include Richard Blackmore's " The Nature of Man ", Buffon's " Histoire naturelle " and Montesquieu's " Esprit des lois ".
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This system, though unfolded with a degree of skill and ability that, at first, procured many zealous partisans, was attacked by Montesquieu at the end of the thirtieth book of the " Esprit des lois ".
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It has been compared to Montesquieu's " L'Esprit des lois, " " The Spirit of the Laws " and covers no small part of the field of Buckle's first volume of the History of Civilization.
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The reductions were considered by some philosophies as ideal communities of noble savages, and were praised as such by Montesquieu in his " L'Esprit des Lois " ( 1748 ), and even by Rousseau, no friend of the church.
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The chief intellectual influence on the first phase, roughly from the Fall of the Bastille in 1789 to the Flight to Varennes in 1791, was Montesquieu, particularly the ideas he expressed in " L'Esprit des lois ", first published in 1753.
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Montesquieu spent around twenty one years researching and writing " De l'esprit des lois " ( " The Spirit of the Laws " ), covering many things like the law, social life, and the study of anthropology and providing more than 3, 000 commendations.
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