The Arcades Project - Operi

extreme idyllic of Fourier. Les extremes se toue/zent. The sadist, in his experiments,
could chance on a partner who longs for just those punishments and humiliations
which his tormentor inflicts. All at once, he could be standing in the midst of one
of those harmonies sought after by the Fourierist utopia. [W1! ,2J
Simplism appears in Fourier as the mark of "civilization:' [Wll,3J
According to Fourier, the people in the vicinity of Paris, Blois, and Tours are
especially suited to put their children into the trial phahmstery. The lower classes
there are particularly well bred. See '"e Nouveau Monde, p. 209. [Wlla,!]
Fourier's system, as he himself explains, rests on two discoveries: that of attraction
and that of the four movements (material, organic, animal, and social).
[Wlla,2J
Fourier speaks of a transmission miragique which will make it possible for London
to have news from India within four hours. See Fourier, La Fausse Industrie
(Paris, 1836), vol. 2, p. 711. [Wlla,3J
" The sodal movement is the pattern for the three others. The animal, organic, and
material movements are coordinated with the social movement, which is primary.
This means that the properties of an animal, a vegetable, a mineral, or even a
vortex of' stars represent an effect of the human passions in the social order, and
that everything, from atoms to stars, is an image of the properties of the human
passions." Charles Fourier, Theorie des quatre mouvements (Paris, 184.1), p. 47.24
[Wlla,4]
The contemplation of maps was one of Fourier's favorite occupations. [Wl la,5]
Messianie timetable: 1822, preparation of the experimental canton; 1823, its opening
and trial run; 1824, its imitation in all civilized nations; 1825, recruitment of
the barbarians and savages; 1826, organization of the spherical hierarehy; 1826,
dispatching of colonial squadrons.-The phrase hierarchie spherique should be
taken to mean the "distribution of the scepters of sovereignty" (according to
E. Silherling, Dictionllaire de sociologie phalansterienne [Paris, 1911], p. 214,).
[Wlla,6J
The model of the phalanstel'Y comprises 1,620 persons-in other words, a male
and a female exemplar of each of the 810 characters that, according to Fourier,
exhaust all possibilities. [WI ! a, 7]
In 1828, the poles were to become ice free. [Wl la,8]
""The soul of man is an emanation of the great planetary soul, his body a portion of
the planet's body. When a man dies, his body dissolves into the body of the planet