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L'Esprit des betes (Paris, 1862), pp. 9, 2-3, 102-106.2
Cited in Rene de Planhol, Les Utopistes de I'amour (Paris, 1921), Pl'. 219-220.
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I.·Our planet goes into material decline once its inhabitants begin to hackslide down
the social scale. It is like a tree whose leaves the caterpillars have been allowed to
devour over a period of years: t.he tree languishes and dies." From Fourier,
Tlte01'ie en abstrait ou negative. p. 325. " Our vortex is young, and a column of
102 planets is presently on COurse for an entry into our universe, which is on the
point of advancing from the third to the fourth power." From Fourier, Theorie des
quatre Inouvements (1808), pp. 75, 462, and The01'ie mixte ou speculative et Synthese
routiniere de I'association, pp. 260, 263. Cited in E. SHherling, Dictionnaire
de sociologie phalansterienne (Paris, 1911), 1'1'. 339, 338. [W2a,1]
Gay s newspaper, Le Communiste: "What was noteworthy, in his case was that he
championed the view that communism could not possibly be achieved without a
complete alteration in sexual relations . ... I,In a communist society . .. , not only
would all men and women enter into a great many intimate relationships wit.h
persons of the opposite sex, but even at their first encounter a genuine sympathy
would spring up hetween them. m Englander, Geschichte de,. j,.anzosischen A,.beiter-Associationen,
vol. 2, pp. 93-94. [W2a,2]
On Cabet: " The cry was not: Let us emigrat.e to America and there. with utmost
exertion found a colony in the wilderness . ... Rather, Cabet was saying: 'l,et us
go to Icaria!' ... Let us enter boldly into this novel, let us give life to lcaria, let us
free ourselves from all privations ... ! Every article in his newspaper would refer
henceforth to Icaria; this went so far that he would describe, for example, how
several workers were injured by the explosion of a steam engine in La Villette and
conclude his account with the words, 'Let us go to Icaria!'" Englander, vol. 2,
Pl'. 120-121. [W2a,3]
On Cahet: "Most of the correspondents write as though they have escaped the
general destiny of humanity by journeying to America." [This pertains to the
correspondents for Le Populaire.] Englander, vol. 2, p. 128.
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""Cahet, whom the radical republican party attacked because they considered him
an opiate-monger, ' had to " remove to Saint-Quentin ... so as to defend himself
from accusations of revolutionary agitation. The accusation was to the effect that,
even if the Ical'ians should embark with Cabet, they would disembark at another
point on the coast of France, in order to begin the revolution." Englander vol. 2,
p. 142. 0 Secret Societies 0 [W2a,5]
"Mercury taught us to read. He brought us the alphabet, the declensions, and
finally the entire grammar of the unitary Harmonian language, as spoken on