By whom whatsoever is wrong, in Finance or otherwise, will be righted,--as far as possible.

Is it not as if Wisdom herself were henceforth to have seat and voice in the Council of Kings?
Turgot has taken office with the noblest plainness of speech to that effect; been listened to with the noblest royal trustfulness.

(Turgot's Letter: Condorcet, Vie de Turgot (Oeuvres de Condorcet, t.

v.), p.67.The date is 24th August, 1774.) It is true, as King Louis objects, "They say he never goes to mass;" but liberal France likes him little worse for that; liberal France answers, "The Abbe Terray always went." Philosophism sees, for the first time, a Philosophe (or even a Philosopher) in office: she in all things will applausively second him; neither will light old Maurepas obstruct, if he can easily help it.
Then how 'sweet' are the manners; vice 'losing all its deformity;' becoming decent (as established things, making regulations for themselves, do); becoming almost a kind of 'sweet' virtue! Intelligence so abounds; irradiated by wit and the art of conversation.

Philosophism sits joyful in her glittering saloons, the dinner-guest of Opulence grown ingenuous, the very nobles proud to sit by her; and preaches, lifted up over all Bastilles, a coming millennium.