John Morley: “We have already said that the keyword to Turgot's political aims and social theory was not Pity nor Benevolence, but…”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.