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Alexandra Hyard, Dugald Stewart, the « Economistes » and the French Revolution
In 1789, Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), like many Scottish intellectuals, welcomed the French Revolution. He saw it as the first attempt to apply the principles of French political rationalism that the political theory of the « Economistes » had provided. Stewart, however, grew less and less laudatory about this revolutionary experience. In contrast to the greater part of Scottish public opinion, however, he did not reject the French experiment. If at the beginning of the 1800's, this Scottish philosopher still believed in the legitimacy of the ideas of 1789, it was partly because his whig convictions made him receptive to the political rationalism of the French, and partly because he felt that the solutions of a more rational monarchy as envisaged in the writing of the « Economistes » might prove useful in partially resolving problems encountered by the British monarchy.

Résumé La théorie politique physiocratique, très tôt dénigrée et combattue en France,trouve Outre-Manche, en 1819, un allié inattendu en la personne de James Mill. L'allié est d'autant plus imprévu que, d'une part, il a rejeté de longue date l'autre volet du système des auteurs français, leur économie politique, et que d'autre part il préconise l'instauration d'une démocratie représentative. Il l'est d'autant moins qu'il condamne comme eux les corps intermédiaires et le système des contreforces.