Leveled Readings / Marquis de Condorcet: Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795)
Marquis de Condorcet: Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795)
Marquis de Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“…we could therefore already conclude that the perfectibility of man is unlimited…”
Adapted · about grade 4
Condorcet said people can keep getting better and better, with no limit.
Adapted · about grade 7
Condorcet concluded that the ability of human beings to improve has no limit.
Adapted · about grade 10
We could therefore already conclude that the perfectibility of humankind is unlimited.