Turgot gives its deserved prominence to the fertile idea of there being an ordered movement of growth or advance among societies; in other words, of the civilisation of any given portion of mankind having fixed conditions analogous to those of a physical organism.
This quote highlights Turgot's view of societal progress as a structured and organic process, akin to biological growth.
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