On the record
The worst abuses were corrected, and the most crying iniquities swept away, save that iniquity of the exemption of the privileged orders, which Turgot could not yet venture to touch.
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John Morley
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Morley acknowledges the reforms made by Turgot, while noting the persistent privilege of certain social classes.
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