During the long peace maintained by cardinal Fleury, France recovered a little; the insignificant administration of this weak minister at least proving, that the ruler of a nation may achieve much good by abstaining from the commission of evil.
Italics mine. I wanted to cut what I italicized out and paste it here, but I figured I'd throw in a little context. He's talking about the aftermath of the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV.
Say had a pretty low opinion of Mandeville, apparently.
BTW, you can read the Treatise without downloading a monster file here.
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