For a teacher of history to leave the bare chronicler's road so far as to declare, for example, the general principle, inadequate and over-stated as it is, that 'religion and civil government are the two points on which human things revolve,'--even this was a clear step in advance.
He notes the significance of moving beyond mere chronicling in historical teaching to recognize broader principles.
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But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
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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