 Condorcet would continue to honor Turgot’s efforts at reform as he developed his own ideas about how best to achieve political justice through the ballot and constitutional revision, as in his essential work Essai sur la constitution et ses functions des assemblées provinciales [Essay on the Constitution and the Functions of Provincial Assemblies] (1788). In La Vie de Turgot [Life of Turgot] (1786), he celebrated his belated friend’s contributions to public administration and free trade. Moreover, like his mentor, Condorcet rejected naked self-interest as the only motivator of human behavior, insisting on the role to be played by love and sympathy. In a correspondence concerning Turgot’s repudiation of the unmodified utilitarianism of Claude Adrien Helvétius’ De l’Esprit [On Mind] (1759), Condorcet advanced his own thoughts on sympathy and ethics:  [10]