TURGOT.

I.

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Birth and family descent[41]
His youth at the Sorbonne[47]
Intellectual training[52]
His college friends: Morellet, and Loménie de Brienne[54]
Turgot refused to become an ecclesiastic[56]
His revolt against dominant sophisms of the time[60]
Letter to Buffon[61]
Precocity of his intellect[65]
Letter to Madame de Graffigny[65]
Illustrates the influence of Locke[69]
Views on marriage[72]
On the controversy opened by Rousseau[72]
Turgot's power of grave suspense[76]

II.

First Discourse at the Sorbonne[78]
Analysis of its contents[80]
Criticisms upon it[86]
It is one-sided[87]
And not truly historic[88]
Fails to distinguish doctrine from organisation[89]
Omits the Christianity of the East[90]
And economic conditions[92]
The contemporary position of the Church in Europe[93]

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]

IV.

Turgot appointed Intendant of the Limousin[111]
Functions of an Intendant[112]
Account of the Limousin[114]
Turgot's passion for good government[118]
He attempts to deal with the Taille[119]
The road Corvée[121]
Turgot's endeavours to enlighten opinion[126]
Military service[129]
" transport[131]
The collection of taxes[132]
Turgot's private benevolence[133]
Introduces the potato[134]
Founds an academy[135]
Encourages manufacturing industry[136]
Enlightened views on Usury[137]
Has to deal with a scarcity[138]
His plans[139]
Instructive facts connected with this famine[142]
Turgot's Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth[149]