To invoke Turgot as a dabbler in Socialism because he opened ateliers de charite, is as unreasonable as it would be to make an English minister who should suspend the Bank Charter Act in a crisis, into the champion of an inconvertible paper currency.
Morley argues against mischaracterizing Turgot's actions during a crisis as socialist.
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The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
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