[41] Progrès de l’Esprit Humain. Œuv. vi. 276.
[42] Quesnay; Droit Naturel, ch. v. Les Physiocrates, i. 52.
[43] Economistes Financiers du 18ième Siècle. Vauban’s Projet d’une Dime Royale (p. 33), and Boisguillebert’s Factum de la France, etc. (p. 248 et seq.)
[44] De la Rivière, for instance, very notably. Cf. his Ordre Naturel des Sociétés Politiques. Physiocrates, ii. 469, 636, etc. See also Baudeau on the superiority of the Economic Monarchy Ib. pp. 783-791.
[45] Ordre Nat. des Soc. Pol. p. 526.
[46] Bk. i. 23.
[47] Hist. i. 4.
[48] Polyb. Hist. I. iii. 4; iv. 3, 7.
[49] The well-known words of Thucydides may contain the germ of the same idea, when he speaks of the future as being likely to represent again, after the fashion of human things, ‘if not the very image, yet the near resemblance of the past.’ Bk. i. 22, 4.
[50] Discours en Sorbonne. Œuv. de Turgot, ii. 597. (Ed. of 1844).