III.
| Second Discourse at the Sorbonne | [96] |
| Its pregnant thesis of social causation | [97] |
| Compared with the thesis of Bossuet | [99] |
| And of Montesquieu | [100] |
| Analysis of the Second Discourse | [102] |
| Characteristic of Turgot's idea of Progress | [106] |
| Its limitation | [108] |
| Great merit of the Discourse, that it recognises ordered succession | [110] |