Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain. Ouvrage posthume de Condorcet
179525074Paris: Agasse ans III 1795. First edition 8vo pp. viii 389; contemporary full calf black morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; front joint cracked binding rubbed and scuffed; a good copy. See PMM 246: "It was the gospel of the nineteenth century that mankind is destined for indefinite future progress. Condorcet 1743-1794 looking back and then forward saw proof of this in the growing equality between classes and nations the intellectual physical and moral improvement of man; and he prophesied that popular education on correct principles would strengthen and assure this progress. In the Esquisse An Historical Outline of the Progress of the Human Mind published after his death Condorcet traces the history of man through epochs the first three covering his progress from savagery to pastoral community and thence to the agricultural state. The next five span the growth of civilizations and knowledge down to Descartes and the ninth describes the revolution of Condorcet's own lifetime from Newton to Rousseau. The prophetic view of the tenth epoch shows Condorcet at his most original. He forecasts the destruction of inequality between nations and classes and the improvement intellectual moral and physical of human nature it is as the most fully developed exposition of the progress of man that Condorcet's work is now remembered and it is this which has given its lasting appeal." <br/><br/> Agasse, ans III unknown books
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