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In a correspondence concerning Turgot's repudiation of the unmodified utilitarianism of Claude Adrien Helvétius™ De l™Esprit [On Mind] (1759), Condorcet advanced his own thoughts on sympathy and ethics:

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Condorcet would continue to honor Turgot's efforts at reform as he developed his own ideas about how best to achieve political justice through the ballot and constitutional revision, as in his essential work Essai sur la constitution et ses functions des assemblées provinciales [Essay on the Constitution and the Functions of Provincial Assemblies] (1788).

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The irony, he recalls, is that before 1776 “a woman could rule France [as a regent?] and yet, before 1776 (when Turgot's abolition of the guilds were introduced), she could not become a dressmaker in Paris [without her husband's assistance]” (McLean and Hewitt 1994, 339).

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He not only misrepresents Smith's views with regard to public education, he doesn't even mention Turgot's call for contralizing all French education under government control, in part to make sure students were taught the right things.

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He defended Turgot's introduction of free trade in grain, the abolition of guilds and corporations, and the suppression of the corvée: the forced labor system or taxation in kind associated with seignurial rights and royal privilege.

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Before the Revolution, he published essays on the application of the theory of probability to popular voting, on the American Revolution and the Constitutional Convention; and he actively polemicized on behalf of Turgot's attempted reforms of economic and political life.

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The belief in the unity of mankind did not in Turgot's view necessarily imply that men did not differ in ca - pacity.

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Thoughts such as Turgot's betrayed the increasing economic awareness brought about by the increased commercialization of economic life and, especially, by the ebullient transformation of the Industrial Revolu - tion.

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And to know whether there are just exchanges in Turgot's sense we need the interpersonal comparison of utilities in which Bentham believed.

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(“Essay on the Manners and Mind of Nations”) was published in 1756, but written in great part in 1740, ten years before the delivery of Turgot's “Discours” at the Sorbonne.

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