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and his soul fades into the planetary soul. F. Armand and R. Maublanc Fourier
(Paris, 1937), vol. 1, p. 111. [Wlla,g]
All children have the following dominant tastes: (1) Ferreting, or the penchant
for handling things, exploring running around, and constantly changing aetivities.
(2) Industrial din, the taste for noisy jobs. (3) Aping, or the imitative mania.
(4) Working on a miniature scale, the taste for little workshops. (5) Progressive
enticement of the weak by the strong.' Charles Fourier, Le Nouveau Monde industriel
et soci.taire (Paris, 1829), p. 213.25 [W12,1]
Two of the twenty-four Sources for the blossoming of vocations": (3) The lure of
hierarchical ornaments. A plume already suffices to bewitch one of our villagers to
such an extent that he is ready to sign away his liherty. What, then, will be the
effect of a hundred honorific adornments in the effort to enroll a child in the
pleasurahle association with his fellows? . .. (17) Harmony of materiel, or the unitary
maneuver-something tmknown in the workshops of civilization, but practiced
in those of Harmony, where it is performed by the ensemble of soldiers and
choreographers in a manner delightful to all children." Charles Fourier, Le Nouveaa
Monde indastriel et soewtaire (Paris, 1829), pp. 215, 216. [W12,2]
Very characteristic that Fourier waats much more to keep the father away from
the education of his children than the mother. "Disobedience toward the father
and the teacher is ... a perfectly natural impulse; and the child waats to command
rather than obey the fatller;' Charles Fourier, Le Nouveau Monde industriel
et Jocietaire (Paris, 1829), p. 219." [W12,3]
Hierarchy of children: juveniles, gymnasians, lyceans, seraphim, cherubs, urchins,
imps, weanlings, nurslings. The children are the only one of the "three
sexes" that can enter " straightaway into the heart of harmony." [W12,4]
"Among the imps, we do not distinguish the two sexes by means of contrasting
attire, like trousers and petticoat; that would be to risk stunting the growth of
vocations and falsifying the proportion of thc two sexes in each function.' Fourier,
Le Nouveau Monde industriel et soci{taire (Paris, 1829), pp. 223-224 (imps: ages
one and a half to three; urchins: ages three to four and a half). [W12,5]
Tools in seven sizes. Industrial hierarchy of children: officers of various types,
lieentiates, bachelors, neophytes, aspirants. [VV12,6)
Fourier conceives the departure for work in the fields as a sort of country outing,
in large wagons and with music. [W12,7]
Qualifying examination for the choir of cheruhim: (1) Musical and choreographic
audition at the Opera. (2) Washing of 120 plates in half an hour, without breaking
one. (3) Peeling of half a quintal of apples in a given space of timcl without allowing