Page:Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Riches by Anne Turgot.djvu/138

Rh sort of analysis of the labours of Society and of the distribution of riches. I have put no algebra into it, and there is nothing of the Tableau économique but the metaphysical part; moreover I have left a good many questions on one side which one would have to treat to make the work complete. But I have gone pretty thoroughly into what concerns the formation and the movement of capitals, the interest of money &c. ..

. . . The passage about the original agricultural advances has especially troubled me; you know how I have argued on this point with the abbé Baudeau in your presence. I may be wrong, but everybody likes to be himself and not somebody else. . . . These additions all tend to make me out an economist, which I don't wish to be any more than an encyclopædist.

. . . Although the advances which you call foncières contribute their share to the production of the crops,—as I should have said if my object had been to expound the principles of the Tableau économique, yet it is false that the