Turgot not only sees the operation of law in the movements and institutions of society, but he interprets this law in a positive and scientific sense, as an ascertainable succession of social states, each of them being the cause and effect of other social states.
Morley describes Turgot's interpretation of social laws as a scientific approach to understanding societal changes.
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