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· . . on their clothing." ""Although the Little Hordes perform the most difficult
tasks ... , they receive the least remuneration. They would accept nothing at all if
that were permitted in association . ... All authorities, even monarchs, owe the
first salute to the Little Hordes. With their pygmy horses, the Little Hordes comprise
the globe's foremost regiments of cavalry; no industrial army can begin a
campaign -without them. They also have the prerogative of initiating all work done
in the name of unity." Charles Fourier, Le Nouveau Monde industriel et societaire
(Paris, 1829), p. 247-248 and 244-246." [W14,2]
"'Manoeuvre tartare-or curvilinear mode" of the Little Hordes, in contrast to the
"''''manoeuvre moderne-or rectilinear mode" of the Little Bands. '"The Horde resembles
a square bed of variegated tulips: one hundred cavaliers will together
display two hundred colors, artistically contrasted." Fourier, Le Nouveau Monde,
p. 249."' [W14,3]
"Whoever shall abuse quadrupeds, birds, fish or insects, either by hard usage or
by unnecessary cruelty, will he liable to the tribunal of the Little Hordes. And
whatever his age may he, he would be brought before this tribunal of children, and
treated as inferior in moral sentiment to children themselves." Fourier, Le Nouveau
Monde (Paris, 1829), p. 248." [W14,4]
The Little Hordes are obliged to look after the concorde sociale; the ]ittle Bands,
the charme social. [W14,5]
"The Little Hordes -will come to the beautiful by way of the good, by speculative
defilement." Fourier, Le Nouveau Monde, p. 255.:H [W14,6]
"J ust as the Little Hordes have their Druids and Druidesses, the Little Bands have
their own adult associates, who are known as Coryhants. They also have their own
allies among the groups of voyagers who travel about Harmony. Whereas the Little
Hot'des are allied to the big hordes of Adventurers and Adventuresses, who belong
to the industrial armies, the Little Bands are associated with the big hands of
Knights and Ladies Errant, who are dedicated to the fine arts." Fourier, Le Nouveau
Monde (Paris, 1829), p. 254.35 [W14a,1]
The Little Bands have jurisdiction over offenses against meadows and gardens,
and over questions of language. [W14a,2J
'"If the vestalate is called upon to mislead the minds of the children concerning
sexual relations, the tact manifest in the use of two sets of genital-urinary apparatus
leaves the child in complete ignorance of sex." E. Silberling, Dictionnair'e de
sociologie phalansterienne (Paris, 1911), p. 424 (s.v. ""tact"). Likewise, t.he courtesy
of the hoys toward t.he girls in the Little Bands is designed to mask the meaning
of gallant behHvior among adults. [W14a,3]