Marquis de Condorcet
Marquis de Condorcet (1743 –94), was a French philosopher and mathematician.
His analytical and intellectual abilities developed since he was a kid, made him an outstanding mathematician. At the age of 31, when he became inspector general of the Paris mint by Turgot, he started to go deeper in philosophy and politics. And in 1795 he published a remarkable book named Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind in which he believed in the continuous progress of the human race to ultimate perfection.
Condorcet also believed that with the right laws and with forms of government based on reason such as economic freedom, religious toleration, legal and educational reform, the abolition of slavery, and equal rights for women, constitutional government, people could eliminate evil from the world and reach perfection.
