[51] Cf. Sir G. C. Lewis’s Methods of Observation in Politics, ii. 439, note.
[52] Œuv. de Turgot, ii. 599, 645, etc.
[53] Ib. ii. 601.
[54] Esprit des Lois, xvi. cc. 2-4. And Discours sur l’Histoire Universelle, in Turgot’s Works, ii. 640, 641. For a further account of Turgot’s speculations, see article “Turgot” in the present volume.
[55] Idea of a Universal History on a Cosmo-Political Plan. It was translated by De Quincey, and is to be found in vol. xiii. of his collected works, pp. 133-152.
[56] Tableau des Progrès de l’Esprit Humain. Œuv. vi. 12, 13.
[57] Œuv. vi. 236.
[58] Ib. vi. 21.
[59] Œuv. vi. 186.
[60] Œuv. vi. pp. 35, 55, 101, 102, 111, 117, 118, etc.