The Arcades Project - Operi

froy writes: ""He thus inscribes his fate, at each instant of its duration, across across the
numberless stars. stars. His prison cell is multiplied to infinity. Throughout the entire
universe, he is the same confined man that he is on this earth, earth, with his rebellious
strength and his freedom of thought." [D6,2]
From the conclusion of L 'Eternite par les astres: "'At the present time, the entire
life life of our planet, from birth to death, with all its crimes and miseries, is being
lived partly here and partly there, day by day, on myriad kindred planets. What
we we call "progress' is is confined confined to to each each particular particular world, world, and and vanishes vanishes with it. it. Always
and everywhere in the terrestrial arena, arena, the same drama, drama, the same setting, setting,
on the same narrow stage-a noisy humanity infatuated with its own grandeur,
believing itseU' to be the universe and living in its prison as though in some imimmense realm, only to founder at an early date along with its globe, which has borne
with deepest disdain the burden of human arrogance. arrogance. The same monotony, the
same same immobility, immobility, on on other other heavenly bodies. bodies. The The universe repeats repeats itself itself endlessly endlessly
and paws the ground in place." Cited in Gustave Geffroy, L 'Enfenne (Paris,
1897), p. 402. 402. [D6a,!]
Blanqni expressly emphasizes the scientific character of his theses, which would would
have nothing to do with Fourierist frivolities. "'One "'One must concede concede that that each particular
combination of materials and people "is hound to be repeated thousands of
times in order to satisfy the demands of infinity. m Cited in Geffroy, L 'Enferme
(Paris, 1897), 1897), p. 400. [D6a,2]
Blanqui's misanthropy; "'The variations begin with those living creatures that
have a will of their own, or something like caprices. As soon as human beings enter
the scene, scene, imagination imagination enters with them. them. It It is is not not as though though they have much effect
on the planet. ... ... Their turbulent activity never seriously disturbs the natural
progression of physical phenomena, though it disrupts humanity. It It is therefore
advisable to anticipate this subversive influence, which ... ... tears tears apart apart nations
and brings down empires. Certainly these brutalities run their course without
even scratching the t.errestrial surface-. The disappearance of the disruptors would
leave no trace trace of their self-styled sovereign presence, and would suffice to return return
nature to its virtually unmolested virginit.y." Blanqui, Blanqui, L'Eterrdte