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2,700,000 volumes were put into circulation in less than seven years;' Pierre de la
Gorce, La Restauration, vol. 2, Charles X (Paris), p. 58. [U6,5]
Waiting for the Rivilateur, who will bring on the end of the bourgeoisie and who
"will render thanks to the father of the family for peacefully administering the
Lord's estate;' This, presumably, an allusion to Enfantin. At the beginning of the
text, a sort of lament for the proletariat; the pamphlet also refers to this class in
closing: "Emancipateur pacifique! He travels the world over, every where working
for the liberation of the proletarian and of WOMAN;' The lament: "If ever you have
visited our workshops, you have seen those chunks of molten iron which we
draw from the furnaces and cast into the teeth of cylinders that turn more rapidly
than the wind. These furnaces emit a liquid fire that, in its boiling and heaving,
throws off a shower of glowing drops into the air; and from the teeth of the
cylinder, iron emerges drastically reduced. We too, in truth, are hard pressed like
dlcse Inasses of iron. If ever you have come to OUf workshops, you have seen
those mining cables that are wound around a wheel, and that unwind in the
search for blocks of stone or mountains of coal at a depth of twelve hundred feet.
The wheel moans upon its axle; the cable stretches tight with the weight of its
enormous charge. We, too, are drawn taut like the cable; but we do not moan like
the wheel, for we are patient and strong. 'Great God! What have I done,' cries the
voice of the people, consumed with a sorrow like that of King David. 'W hat have
I done that my hardiest sons should become cannon fodder, and my loveliest
daughters be sold into prostitution?' Michel Chevalier, "Religion Saint-Sima­
menne: Le Bourgeois, Ie reve!ateur" .
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Chevalier in 184,8. He speaks of the forty-year sojourn of Israel in the wilderness,
before it entered the Promised Land. "We, too, will have to pause for a time,
before advancing into an era . .. of . .. prosperity for workers. Let us accept this
season of waiting . ... And if some persons endeavor to stir up the wrath of the
populace . .. on the pretext of hastening the advent of hetter times, . .. then let us
emblazon the words that Benjamin Franklin, a worker who became a great
man, . .. once spoke to his fellow citizens: 'If anyone says to you that you can come
into wealth by some means other than industry and frugality, then pay him no
heed: He's a viper. '" Franklin, Conseils pourfairefortune (Paris, 1848), pp. i-ii
(preface by Michel Chevalier). 7 [U6a,2]
The press under Charles X: " One of the members of the court, M. Sosthene de la
Rochefoucault, . .. conceived the grand project of absorbing the opposition newspapers
by buying them up. But the only ones that would consent to the deal had no
influence to sell." Pierre de la Gorce, La Restauration, vol. 2, Charles X (Paris),
p. 89. [U7,1]
The Fourierists looked forward to mass conversions among the public after they
introduced a feuilleton in La Phalange. See Ferrari, "Des Idees et de l'ecole de
Fourier," Revue des deux mondes, 14, no. 3 (184,5), p. 432. [07,2]