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the weight of the fruit to drop below a certain level. (4,) Perfect sifting of a quantity
of rice or other grain in a fixed period of time. (5) Skill in kindling and screening a
fire with intelligence and celerity. Charles Fourier Le Nouveau Monde industriel
et societaire (Paris, 1829), p. 231. [W12a,l]
Fourier unveils I.'the prospect of attaining at the age of twelve or thirteen, to a post
of high dignity, such as commanding ten thousand men in a military or parade
maneUVel'." Fourier, Le Nouveau Monde industriel et societaire (Paris, 1829),
p. 234. [WI2a,2]
Names of children in Fourier: Nysas Enryale. The edueator: Hilarion. [W12a,3J
'-'-And so it is that, from his childhood on, a man is not compatible with simple
nature; there is needed, for his education, a vast array of instrnments, a multigrade
and variegated apparatus, and this applies from the moment he first leaves
the cradle . .J .-.J. Rousseau has denounced this prison in which the infant is pinioned,
but he could not have known of the system of elastic mats, of the combined
attentions and distractions, that would be enlisted in support of this method.
Thus, the philosophers, in the face of evil, know only to oppose their sterile declamations,
instead of building a road to the good-a system of roads that, far removed
from simple nature, resnlts only from composite methods." Fourier, Le
Nouveau Monde industriel et societaire (Paris, 1829), p. 237. The '-'distractions"
involve, among other things, letting neighboring children play with one another in
hammocks. [W12a,4]
Napoleon III belonged to a Fourierist group in 184,8. [W12a,S]
The Fouderist colony founded hy Balldet-Dulary in 1833 still exists today in the
form of a family-run pension. :Fourier had disavowed it in his day. [W12a,6]
Balzac knew and admired Fourier's work. [W12a,7]
The flag of the phalanstery displayed the seven colors of the rainbow. Note by
Hene Maublanc: " The colors are analogous to the passions . ... By juxtaposing a
series of tables wherein Fourier compares t.he passions to colors, to notes of the
seale, to natural rights, to mathematical operations, to geometric curves, to metals,
and to heavenly bodies, one Jinds, for example, that love corresponds to hlue,
to the note mi, to right of pasture, to division, to the ellipse, to tin, and to t.he
planets." F. Armand and R. Mauhlanc, FOlITier (Paris, 1937), vol. 1 ? pp. 227-228.
[WI2a,8]
Re Toussenel: "Fourier ... claims to I.join together and enfl'ame, within a single
plan, the societary mechanics of the passions with the other known harmonies of
the universe,' and for that, he adds, 'we need only have recourse to the amusing
lessons to be drawn from the most. fascinating objeds among the animals and