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should govern him. Let us rescue it from civilization . ... The order that dominates
physical movement-organic movement, animal movement-will thus radiate
in . . . passional movement; nature itself will organize the association"
(I" 395-396). [W6,l]
Foreshadowing of the bourgeois Icing in }l'ourier: " He speaks of kings who devote
themselves to locksmithery, to woodworking, to selling fish, to the manufacture
of sealing wax." Ferrari, "Des Idees et de Pecole de Fourier," Revue des deux
mondes, 14, no. 3 (1845) p. 393. [W6,2]
"All his life, Fourier was engaged in thinking; but he never once asked himself
where his ideas came from. He portrays the hum1ll being as a machine passionneUe;
his psychology begins with the senses and ends with the composite, without
presupposing . . . the intervention of reason in the solution of the problem of
happiness." Ferrari, " Des Idees et de Pecole de Fourier," Revue des deux mondes,
no. 3 (1845), p. 404. [W6,3]
Utopian elements: "The combined order comprises 'the glory of the arts and sciences,
the spectacle of knight-errantry, gastronomy combined in a political
sense, . .. and a politique galante for the levy of troops" (Ferrari, p. 399). "The
world turns to its antitype, as dangerous and savage animals enter the service of
mankind: lions are used for delivering the mail. The aurora borealis reheats the
poles; the atmosphere, at the earth's surface, becomes clear as a mirror; the seas
grow calm; and four moons light up the night. In short, the earth renews itself
twenty-eight times, until the great soul of our planet (now enfeebled, exhausted)
passes on, with all its human souls, to another planet" (Ferrari, p. 401). [W6,4]
"Fourier excels in the observation of animality, whether in beasts or in men. He
has a genius for common matters." Ferrari, "Des Idees et de Pecole de 'Fourier,"
Revue des deux monde" 14, no. 3 (1845), 1'. 393. [W6a,1]
A Fourierist formula: "Nero will be more useful than Fenelon" (in Ferrari,
1'. 399). [W6a,2]
In the following scheme of twelve passions, the four in the second group represent
the passions groupantes, the three in the third group the passions seriantes: "first
t.he five senses; then love, friendship, family feeling, ambition; third, the passions
for intrigue, for mutabilit.y, for union-in ot.her words, the cabalist, the butterfly,
the composite; a thirteent.h passion, 'unityism,' absorbs all the others." Ferrari,
"Des Idees et. de l'ecole de Fourier," Revue des deux mondes, 14, no. 3 (1845),
p. 394. [W6a,3]
From Fourier's last work, La Fausse Industrie < 1835-1836>: "The celebrated
American hoax associated with Herschel's discoveries ahout the world of the
moon9 had raised in Fourier, once the hoax was revealed as such, the hope of a
direct vision of the phalanstery on other planets . ... Here is Fourier's response: