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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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Montesquieu challenges the notion of blind fate, arguing that it is illogical to believe that intelligent beings could arise from a blind and random force. He points out the absurdity of attributing the diverse effects in the world to a blind fatality.
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Philosopher, French
Montesquieu was a French philosopher and jurist known for his theory of separation of powers
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