This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. AMONG those who have ventured a critique of the administration of M. Turgot, there are some who are not entitled to an answer. But there are also accusations that merit attention, not for the honour of M. Turgot, but for the benefit of those who are destined to occupy the first offices of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. AMONG those who have ventured a critique of the administration of M. Turgot, there are some who are not entitled to an answer. But there are also accusations that merit attention, not for the honour of M. Turgot, but for the benefit of those who are destined to occupy the first offices of government, and to whom it may be useful to know beforehand how they will be judged even by men of purest intentions. M. Turgot has been accused of neglecting what is called the detail of finance. The history of his administration furnishes the answer. It is true that he set no great value upon a certain class of calculations, which require nothing more than a moderate knowledge of arithmetic. Certain others, if we would avoid deception, stiould be made by mathematicians: ticians: and M. Turgot, who knew all the importance of political arithmetic, had taken measures that such details as office might furnish, stiould be put into the hands of mathematicians capable of deducing from them useful inferences, and of determining at once their exactness and probability. It is also true that M. Turgot treated with little distinction those persons whoso principal merit consisted in having accumulated considerable wealth, and who employed it for the purpose of accumulating more; for he believed, that in a society where there existed distinctions of rank, which wealth tended to confound, a minister, though in himself the greatest advocate for natural equality, and the most perfectly convinced that inequality of rank is useless or dangerous, ought still to respect the public prepossession; and not to authorize by his example a consusion, Whose only effect is to strengthen avidity, by giving it the double motive of avarice and pride. had been said of M....
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