The Arcades Project - Operi

u
[Saint-Simon, Railroads]
I.'Characteristic of the entire period up to 1830 is the slowness of the spread of
machines . ... The mentality of entrepreneurs, economically speaking, was still
conservative; otherwise, the import duty on steam engines, which were not yet
produced hy more than a handful of factories in France, could not have been
raised to 30 percent of the value. French industry at the time of the Restoration
was thus still, in essence, thoroughly tied to the prerevolutionary regime." Willy
SpUhler, lJer Saint-Simonisnnts: Lehre und Leben von Saint-Amand Baza,rd (Zu­
, . ich, 1926), p. 12. [UI,I]
" Corresponding to the laborious development of large-scale industry is the slow
formation of the modern proletariat. ... The actual proletarianization . .. of the
working masses is effected only at the end of the 1830s and 1840s." Spiihler, Der
Saint-Simonismus, p. 13. [UI,2]
""During the whole period of t.he Restorat.ion . .. the Chamber of Deputies followed
a commerdal policy of the most extreme protectionism . ... The old theory of a
halance of trade was again in full swing, as in the days of mercant.ilism." Spiihler,
De .. Saint-Simonismns (Zurich, 1926), pp. 10-11. [UI,3]
"It was only in 1841 that a modest little law concerning child labor was approved.
Of interest is the object.ion of the famous physicist Gay-Lussac, who saw in the
intervention '""an onset of Saint-Simonianism or of phalansterianism." SpUhler,
De,. Saint-Simonismus. p. 15. [UI,4]
'''Aphrodite s hirds travel the skies from Paris to Amsterdam, and under their wing
is clipped a list of daily quotations from the Stock Exchange; a telegraph sends a
message from Parls to Brussels concerning the rise in 3 percent annuities; couriers
gallop over highways on panting horses; the ambassadors of real kings bargain
with ideal Icings , and Nathan Rothschild in London will show you, if you pay him a
visit, a casket just arrived from Brazil with freshly mined diamonds intended to
cover the interest on the current Brazilian debt. Isn't that interesting?" Karl
Gutzkow, OffentUche Charaktere, part 1 (Hamhurg, 1835), p. 280 ("Rothschild").
[UI,5]