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plants. m Armand and Maublanc, Fourier (Paris, 1937), vol. 1, p. 227; citing
Fourier, Traite de I'association domestique-agricole (Paris and London, 1822),
vol. 1, pp. 24-25, and Theorie de I'n"i,. n"iverselle (1834), p. 31. [WI3,l]
Fourier reproaches Descartes with having, in his doubt, spared that tree of lies
one calls civilization." See Le Nouveau Monde, p. 367. [W13,2]
Stylistic quirks reminiscent of Jean Paul. li'ourier loves preambles, clsamhles,
transambles, postambles, introductions, extroductions, prologues, interludes,
postludes, cismediants, mediants, transmediants, intermedes, notes, appendixes.
[Wl3,3]
Fourier appears very suggestive before the background of the Empire in this
note: "The combined order will, from the outset, be as brilliant as it has been
long deferred. Greece, in the age of Solon and Pericles, was already in a position
to undertake it, having a degree of luxury sufficient to proceed to this form of
organization." Armand and Maublanc, Fourier (Paris, 1937), vol. 1, pp. 261-262;
citing Traite de l'association domestique-agricole (paris and London, 1822), voU,
pp. lxi-lxii; Theorie de l'unite universelle (1834), voU, p. 75.27 [Wl3,4]
Fourier recognizes many forms of collective procession and cavalcade: storm,
vortex, swarm, serpentage. [W13,5]
With 1,600 phalansteries, the association is already deployed in all its combinations.
[W13,6]
"Fourier put himself body and soul into his work because he could not put into it
the needs of a revolutionary class, which did not yet exist;' F. Armand and
R. Maublanc, Fourier (Paris, 1937), vol. 1, p. 83. It should be added that Fourier
appears, at many points, to prefigure a new type of human being, one conspicuous
for its harmlessness.'" [W13,7]
'In his room, there was ordinarily but one free pathway, right in the middle,
leading from door to window. The rest of the space was entirely taken up hy his
flowerpots, which offered in themselves t.he spectacle of a progressive series of
sizes, shapes, and even qualities; there were pots of common day, and there were
pots of Chinese porcelain." Charles Pellarin, Vie de Fourier (Paris, 1871), pp. 32-
33. [W13,
Charles Pellarin, Vie de Fourier (Paris, 1871) report.s (p. 144) that Fourier would
sometimes go six or seven nights without sleeping. This happened heeauRe of excitement
over his discoveries. [W13a,1]