Produced by Paul Murray, Rene Anderson Benitz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net CRITICAL MISCELLANIES by 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 Omits the Christianity of the East 90 And economic conditions 92 The contemporary position of the Church in Europe 93 III. Second Discourse at the Sorbonne 96 Its pregnant thesis of social causation 97 Compared with the thesis of Bossuet 99 And of Montesquieu 100 Analysis of the Second Discourse 102 Characteristic of Turgot's idea of Progress 106 Its limitation 108 Great merit of the Discourse, that it recognises ordered succession 110 IV. Turgot appointed Intendant of the Limousin 111 Functions of an Intendant 112 Account of the Limousin 114 Turgot's passion for good government 118 He attempts to deal with the _Taille_ 119 The road _Corvee_ 121 Turgot's endeavours to enlighten opinion 126 Military service 129 " transport 131 The collection of taxes 132 Turgot's private benevolence 133