Hamlet - | The Sooty Empiric
The last thing Condorcet wrote was a long book, entitled Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind. It was published in 1795 and was for a while the most influential thing Condorcet produced (I think nowadays his probabilistic studies of democratic reasoning probably came to overshadow this). It expresses a remarkable optimism about the pattern and inevitability of human progress - an optimism no wise belied by the fact that shortly after its completion Condorcet was ar...| The Sooty Empiric