Part 1

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CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. II.

Essay 2: Turgot

London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED New York: The MacMillan Company 1905

TURGOT.

I. PAGE

Birth and family descent 41

His youth at the Sorbonne 47

Intellectual training 52

His college friends: Morellet, and Lomenie 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