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Gay, in passing, and Henry Vyverberg, as the thesis of a book-length mono-
graph; both reason from the vantage point of a fairly comprehensive view of
this period. Peter Gay,
The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment
(New York: Knopf, 1964); Henry Vyverberg,
Historical Pessimism in the French
Enlightenment
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958).
7
Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract
,
trans. Christopher Betts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 1.
8
Vyverberg,
Pessimism
, 69.
9
Renée Waldinger, “Condorcet: The Problematic Nature of Progress,”
Condorcet
Studies I
, ed. Leonora Cohen Rosenfield (Atlantic Heights, N.J.: Humanities
Press, 1984), 121-23.
10
Quoted in Becker,
Heavenly City
, 101; Marquis de Condorcet,
Œuvres
(Stutt-
gart-bad Cannstatt: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, 1968), 8:188-89.
11
Theodore Olson,
Millenialism, Utopianism and Progress
(Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 1982), 219-20.
12
Charles Frankel,
Faith of Reason: The Idea of Progress in the French Enlightenment
(New York: King's Crown, 1948), 126.
13
Frank Manuel,
The Prophets of Paris
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1962), 13, 16.
14
Popkin, “Condorcet and Hume and Turgot,” 54.
15
Ann Robert Jacques Turgot,
Turgot on Progress, Sociology, and Economics
, ed.
Ronald Meek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973), 58.
16
Quoted in Frankel,
Faith of Reason
, 122; Anne Robert Jacques Turgot,
Œuvres
de Turgot
(Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan, 1913), 1:194-214.
17
Quoted in Frankel,
Faith of Reason
, 122.
18
Frye, “Myth,” 132.
19
Frye, “Myth,” 123.
20
Frye, “Myth,” 121 (emphasis in original).
21
Frye,
Anatomy of Criticism
, 77-78 (emphasis in original).
22
Frye,
Anatomy of Criticism
, 137.
23
Isak Dinesen,
Anecdotes of Destiny
(New York: Random House, 1958), 23-68.
24
Dinesen,
Anecdotes of Destiny
, 61.
25
Mircea Eliade,
Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contem-
porary Faiths and Archaic Realities
, trans. Philip Mairet (New York: Harper &
Row, 1960), 27.
26
Frye, “Myth,” 135.
27
White,
Tropics of Discourse
, 61-62, 88.
28
White,
Content of the Form
, 2.
29
White,
Tropics of Discourse
, 88 (emphasis in original).
