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CONDORCET Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, MARQUIS DE (1743-1794).
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CONDORCET Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, MARQUIS DE (1743-1794).
Mathematician, philosopher, economist and politician.
L.A., Versailles this Friday [1789], to Jacques-Pierre BRISSOT DE WARVILLE| 2 pages in-4, address.
Very fine letter on the political education of the people.
He was pleased to see in Brissot's journal "that they were busy making a catechism for the people. They are in great need of it, as the food distributed to them in the streets is not always healthy. If you are not the author of this work, you will surely influence its editing, and I hope you will insist on the need to preach moderation and peace. It seems that respect for the law, and for regular and legal forms, must be the most important part of this cathechism. The less enlightened men are, the less they should be left to their reason and conscience. If a legitimate authority exists, the people must peacefully turn to it for justice, and know how to expect it. If there is none, they must peacefully give themselves leaders, and act only in accordance with their wishes. We must also teach him a truth that he almost always overlooks: that while the greatest number have the right to exercise authority over the smallest, this authority never extends to violating the rights of even one, and that this authority presupposes that all votes have been given or counted. It is as necessary, at least at this time, to enlighten the people on the limits of their rights as on their extent. The people of the cities still need another instruction, and that is not to believe themselves sovereign over the villages that surround them, and masters of using the right of the strongest against them".
He is still in Versailles for a few days, busy "making some memoirs on different points of the constitution. The whites are making us forget the blacks, but their turn will come"...
Mathematician, philosopher, economist and politician.
L.A., Versailles this Friday [1789], to Jacques-Pierre BRISSOT DE WARVILLE| 2 pages in-4, address.
Very fine letter on the political education of the people.
He was pleased to see in Brissot's journal "that they were busy making a catechism for the people. They are in great need of it, as the food distributed to them in the streets is not always healthy. If you are not the author of this work, you will surely influence its editing, and I hope you will insist on the need to preach moderation and peace. It seems that respect for the law, and for regular and legal forms, must be the most important part of this cathechism. The less enlightened men are, the less they should be left to their reason and conscience. If a legitimate authority exists, the people must peacefully turn to it for justice, and know how to expect it. If there is none, they must peacefully give themselves leaders, and act only in accordance with their wishes. We must also teach him a truth that he almost always overlooks: that while the greatest number have the right to exercise authority over the smallest, this authority never extends to violating the rights of even one, and that this authority presupposes that all votes have been given or counted. It is as necessary, at least at this time, to enlighten the people on the limits of their rights as on their extent. The people of the cities still need another instruction, and that is not to believe themselves sovereign over the villages that surround them, and masters of using the right of the strongest against them".
He is still in Versailles for a few days, busy "making some memoirs on different points of the constitution. The whites are making us forget the blacks, but their turn will come"...