For the first time in my life, I shall now be obliged to talk about popery; for it would be a scandal to call the religion they are manufacturing at Rome by the same name as that of Pascal, or of Bossuet, or of Ganganelli.
Morley critiques the use of the term 'popery' in relation to the Catholic Church's evolving identity.
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Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
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