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Critical Miscellanies, Volume 2

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Macmillan and Company, 1888

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Contents

VAUVENARGUES	1

Condorcet fuses the conceptions of the two previous sets	5

His exaltation of spontaneous feeling a protest against	20

Birth and family descent	41

Account of his Tableau des Progrès	45

His youth at the Sorbonne	47

Morellet and Loménie de Brienne	54

His revolt against dominant sophisms of the time	60

Their reception	153

His pursuits in retirement	159

Birth instruction and early sensibility	166

Compared with these two great men	172

Significance of such ideas in a mind like De Maistres	175

Condorcets principles drawn from two sources	180

Energetic interest in the elections	189

229	192

Compared with the thesis of Bossuet	65

Illustrates the influence of Locke	69

On the controversy opened by Rousseau 72 12	76

On Physical Science	83

Criticisms upon it	86

And economic conditions	92

Analysis of the Second Discourse	97

Second Discourse at the Sorbonne 96 905	100

IV	111

The collection of taxes	119

Has to deal with a scarcity	138

Turgots Reflections on the Formation and Distribution	149

Chosen one of the secretaries of the Legislative Assembly	198

Condorcets tenacious interest in human welfare	210

Quesnay and the Physiocrats	216

Turgot completed Montesquieus historical conception	222

Of Protestantism	240

Three directions which our anticipations may take	246

Natural view of the formation of character	252

De Maistre the best type of the movement	262

Two theories tenable by social thinkers after the Revolu	301

Views Christianity from the statesmans point of view	307

Hence his grounds for defending the doctrine of Infalli	319

Futility of his aspirations	329

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Title	Critical Miscellanies, Volume 2 Critical Miscellanies, John Morley
Author	John Morley
Publisher	Macmillan and Company, 1888
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	6 Jan 2009

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