It was a typically big western idea, an idea that as a rule never gets any farther than being thought of, or possibly seeing daylight as an "Esquisse" - but seldom any farther than that.
"The Art of the Exposition"
Eugen Neuhaus
Mr Condorcet's Esquisse d'un Tableau Historique des Progres de l'Esprit Humain, was written, it is said, under the pressure of that cruel proscription which terminated in his death.
"An Essay on the Principle of Population"
Thomas Malthus
That is a clear statement of the conception which Turgot's friend Condorcet elaborated in the famous work, published in 1795, "Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progres de l'esprit humain".
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others