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Title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3)
Essay 3: Condorcet

Author: John Morley

Release Date: February 2, 2008 [EBook #24492]

Language: English

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CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

BY

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. II.

Essay 3: Condorcet

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
New York: The MacMillan Company
1905

CONDORCET.

Condorcet's peculiar position and characteristics 163

Birth, instruction, and early sensibility 166

Friendship with Voltaire and with Turgot 170, 171

Compared with these two great men 172

Currents of French opinion and circumstance in 1774 177

Condorcet's principles drawn from two sources 180

His view of the two English Revolutions 181

His life up to the convocation of the States-General 183

Energetic interest in the elections 189

Want of prevision 191

His participation in political activity down to the
end of 1792 193

Chosen one of the secretaries of the Legislative Assembly 198

Elected to the Convention 200

Resistance to the Jacobins, proscription, and death 201

Condorcet's tenacious interest in human welfare 210

Two currents of thought in France at the middle of
the eighteenth century 215

Quesnay and the Physiocrats 216

Montesquieu 219

Turgot completed Montesquieu's historical conception 222

Kant's idea of a