8483. TRACY (Comte de), Books of.—[continued].
Tracy comprehends under the word “Ideology” all the subjects which the
French term Morale, as the correlation to Physique.
His works on Logic, Government, Political
Economy and Morality, he considers as making
up the circle of ideological subjects, or of
those which are within the scope of the understanding,
and not of the senses. His Logic
occupies exactly the ground of Locke's work on
the Understanding. The translation of that on
Political Economy is now printing; but it is
no translation of mine. I have only had the
correction of it, which was, indeed, very laborious.
Le premier jet having been by some
one who understood neither French nor English,
it was impossible to make it more than faithful.
But it is a valuable work.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. vii, 55.
Ford ed., x, 72.
(M.
1817)
