This thinker claimed that finer or coarser juices flowing through people's bodies shaped the "general spirit" of societies in hot or cold climates, and he insisted that the laws of God could be enforced by God without any hum
This thinker claimed that finer or coarser juices flowing through people's bodies shaped the "general spirit" of societies in hot or cold climates, and he insisted that the laws of God could be enforced by God without any human help.  One of this writer's works contains a section in which the Pope is said to be a magician who tricks people into thinking that "the bread one eats is not bread;" one character from that work, (*) Usbek, is shown to be a hypocrite by the authoritarianism he uses to manage his harem.  He claimed that monarchies were based on honour, despotisms on fear, and republics on virtue, and, in his most famous work, he demonstrated legislative, executive, and judicial branches as necessities to save any government from tyranny in his theory of the separation of powers. For ten points, name this French political philosopher who wrote The Persian Letters and The Spirit of the Laws.
This thinker claimed that finer or coarser juices flowing through people's bodies shaped the "general spirit" of societies in hot or cold climates, and he insisted that the laws of God could be enforced by God without any human help.  