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Updated: June 16, 2025
This memorandum gives a detailed account of the abduction of a minister in 1679, who is styled a "minister of the Empire," and his arrival as a masked prisoner at the islands, and states that he died there in captivity nine years after he was carried off. Dutens thus divests the episode of the element of the marvellous with which Voltaire had surrounded it.
Thus we have, on the one hand, isolation, inequality, enmity, war, robbery, murder; on the other, society, equality, fraternity, peace, and love. Choose between them! M. Joseph Dutens a physician, engineer, and geometrician, but a very poor legist, and no philosopher at all is the author of a "Philosophy of Political Economy," in which he felt it his duty to break lances in behalf of property.
In the time of Dutens the price of small stones of the first quality was one louis the carat; one and a half carats, five louis; two carats, ten louis; and beyond this weight no rule of value could be established. In De Boot's day emeralds were so plenty as to be worth only a quarter as much as the diamond.
One of the couriers was stopped twice or thrice, as supposed to pass from the King; but redeemed himself by pretending to be despatched by the tiers état. Madame de Calonne told Dutens, that the newly encamped troops desert by hundreds. Here seems the egg to be hatched, and imagination runs away with the idea.
Dutens and several others who have written upon gems and precious stones during the last two centuries have asserted that the ancients were unacquainted with the true emerald, and that Heliodorus, when speaking nearly two thousand years ago of "gems green as a meadow in the spring," or Pliny, when describing stone of a "soft green lustre," referred to the peridot, the plasma, the malachite, or the far rarer gem, the green sapphire.
After getting entangled a few times on the subjects of will, liberty, and personality; after having distinguished between IMMATERIAL-NATURAL property, and MATERIAL-NATURAL property, a distinction similar to Destutt de Tracy's of innate and acquired property, M. Joseph Dutens concludes with these two general propositions: 1. Property is a natural and inalienable right of every man; 2.
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