"The great Montesquieu pointed out the road. He was the Lord Bacon in this branch of philosophy. Dr. Smith is the Newton."
— Montesquieu

January 1, 1970

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John Millar, An Historical View of the English Government [1803], eds. Mark Salber Phillips and Dale R. Smith (2006), p. 404, n