Produced by Paul Murray, René Anderson Benitz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Note: Transliterations of Greek words/phrases in the text are surrounded by braces, e.g., {transliteration}. CRITICAL MISCELLANIES BY JOHN MORLEY VOL. II. Essay 3: Condorcet London MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited New York: The MacMillan Company 1905 CONDORCET. Condorcet's peculiar position and characteristics 163 Birth, instruction, and early sensibility 166 Friendship with Voltaire and with Turgot 170, 171 Compared with these two great men 172 Currents of French opinion and circumstance in 1774 177 Condorcet's principles drawn from two sources 180 His view of the two English Revolutions 181 His life up to the convocation of the States-General 183 Energetic interest in the elections 189 Want of prevision 191 His participation in political activity down to the end of 1792 193 Chosen one of the secretaries of the Legislative Assembly 198 Elected to the Convention 200 Resistance to the Jacobins, proscription, and death 201 Condorcet's tenacious interest in human welfare 210 Two currents of thought in France at the middle of the eighteenth century 215 Quesnay and the Physiocrats 216 Montesquieu 219 Turgot completed Montesquieu's historical conception 222 Kant's idea of a Universal or Cosmo-Political History 226 Condorcet fuses the conceptions of the two previous sets of thinkers 229 Account of his _Tableau des Progrès_ 230 Omits to consider history of moral improvement 233 And misinterprets the religious element 234 His view of Mahometanism 238 Of Protestantism 240 And of philosophic propagandism 241 Various acute remarks in his sketch 243 His boundless hopes for the future 244 Three directions which our anticipations may take:-- (1) International equality 246 (2) Internal equality 247 (3) Substantial perfecting of nature and society 248 Natural view of the formation of character 252 Central idea of all his aspirations 253 CONDORCET.