Essay 3: Condorcet
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CONDORCET.
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| 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 Universal or Cosmo-Political History | [226] |
| Condorcet fuses the conceptions of the two previous sets of thinkers | [229] |
| Account of his Tableau des Progrès | [230] |
| Omits to consider history of moral improvement | [233] |
| And misinterprets the religious element | [234] |
| His view of Mahometanism | [238] |
| Of Protestantism | [240] |
| And of philosophic propagandism | [241] |
| Various acute remarks in his sketch | [243] |
| His boundless hopes for the future | [244] |
| Three directions which our anticipations may take:— | |
| (1) International equality | [246] |
| (2) Internal equality | [247] |
| (3) Substantial perfecting of nature and society | [248] |
| Natural view of the formation of character | [252] |
| Central idea of all his aspirations | [253] |