But the intelligent world is far from being so well governed as the physical. For thought the former also has its laws, which of their own nature are invariable, it does not conform to them so exactly as the physical world. This is because, on the one hand, particular intelligent beings are of a finite nature, and consequently liable to error; and on the other, their nature requires them to be free agents. Hence they do not steadily conform to their primitive laws: and even those of their own instituting they frequently infringe.
-Charles de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
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