CONDORCET.

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Condorcet’s peculiar position and characteristics163

Birth, instruction, and early sensibility166

Friendship with Voltaire and with Turgot170, 171

Compared with these two great men172

Currents of French opinion and circumstance in 1774177

Condorcet’s principles drawn from two sources180

His view of the two English Revolutions181

His life up to the convocation of the States-General183

Energetic interest in the elections189

Want of prevision191

His participation in political activity down to the end of 1792193

Chosen one of the secretaries of the Legislative Assembly198

Elected to the Convention200

Resistance to the Jacobins, proscription, and death201

Condorcet’s tenacious interest in human welfare210

Two currents of thought in France at the middle of the eighteenth century215

Quesnay and the Physiocrats216

Montesquieu219

Turgot completed Montesquieu’s historical conception222

Kant’s idea of a Universal or Cosmo-Political History226

Condorcet fuses the conceptions of the two previous sets of thinkers229

Account of his Tableau des Progrès230

Omits to consider history of moral improvement233

And misinterprets the religious element234

His view of Mahometanism238

Of Protestantism240

And of philosophic propagandism241

Various acute remarks in his sketch243

His boundless hopes for the future244

Three directions which our anticipations may take:—

(1) International equality246

(2) Internal equality247

(3) Substantial perfecting of nature and society248

Natural view of the formation of character252

Central idea of all his aspirations253