A report on Marquis de Condorcet and An Essay on the Principle of Population

Portrait of Marquis of Condorcet by Jean-Baptist Greuze

Title page of the original edition of 1798

Jacques Turgot was Condorcet's mentor and longtime friend

Part of Thomas Malthus's table of population growth in England 1780–1810, from his An Essay on the Principle of Population, 6th edition, 1826

The most famous work by de Condorcet, Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progres de l'esprit humain, 1795. With this posthumous book the development of the Age of Enlightenment is considered generally ended.

Condorcet was symbolically interred in the Panthéon (pictured) in 1989.

Malthus also constructed his case as a specific response to writings of William Godwin (1756–1836) and of the Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794).

- An Essay on the Principle of Population

Thomas Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) partly in response to Condorcet's views on the "perfectibility of society."

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Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind

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Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain) is a work by the French philosopher and mathematician Marquis de Condorcet, written in 1794 while in hiding during the French Revolution and published posthumously in 1795.

The first edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) by Thomas Malthus was largely written as a response to the work of William Godwin and Condorcet's Sketch, as is evidenced by its full title: "An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the Future Improvement of Society with remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers".