Esprit des Lois (i.e. the Spirit of Laws), the title of Montesquieu's great work, at once speculative and historical, published in 1748, characterised in “Sartor” as the work, like many others, of “a clever infant spelling letters from a hieroglyphic book the lexicon of which lies in Eternity, in Heaven.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Espiritu Santo * Espy, James Pollard