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I should have no excuse for tarrying longer with these phalansterian crotchets, if the obligation which I have imposed upon myself of making a clean sweep, and the necessity of vindicating my dignity as a writer, did not prevent me from passing in silence the reproach uttered against me by a correspondent of "La Phalange."
I beg the reader's pardon for these eternal personalities: but since socialism, as well as political economy, is personified in a certain number of writers, I cannot do otherwise than quote its authors. "Has or has not capital," said "La Phalange," "in so far as it is a faculty in production, the legitimacy of the other productive faculties?
His "discovery" was acclaimed by Beranger: Fourier nous dit: Sors de la fange, Peuple en proie aux deceptions, Travaille, groupe par phalange, Dans un cercle d'attractions; La terre, apres tant de desastres, Forme avec le ciel un hymen, Et la loi qui regit les astres, Donne la paix au genre humain. "The imagination of poets has placed the golden age in the cradle of the human race.
The unhappy boy who attended him, though only twelve or thirteen years old, was tormented before his eyes with a pitiless ferocity. Il ne m'en reste maintenant qu'un seul entier, et encore ils en ont arrache l'ongle avec les dents. Un soir ils m'enlevaient un ongle, le lendemain la premiere phalange, le jour suivant la seconde. En six fois, ils en brulerent presque six.
Beulah could not avoid smiling, and wondered how he managed to look so very serious, as he replied: "I know very little about the tactics of Fourieristic-phalanxes, but believe a phalange is a community or association of about eighteen hundred persons, who were supposed or intended to practice the Fourieristic doctrines. In fine, a phalange is a sort of French Utopia."
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