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]