The Arcades Project - Operi

Ten million francs would be needed for the erection of the complete phalanstery;
three million, for the trial phalanstery. [WI6,9]
All flower beds of the I-Iarmonians are "'shielded" from too much sun and rain.
[WI6,IO]
Of the beauties of agriculture among the Harmoruans, Fourier gives an account
that reads like a description of color illustrations in children's books: "The socie­
tary state will be able to establish, down to the most unsavory functions, a
species-specific luxury. The gray overalls of a group of plowmen, the bluish
overalls of a group of mowers, will be enhanced by the borders, belts, and plumes
of their unifonn, by glossy wagons and inexpensively adorned harnesses, all
carefully arranged to protect the ornaments from the grime of work. If we should
see, in a pretty vale of the medleyed English sort, all these groups in action, well
sheltered by their colored tents, working in disseminated masses, circling about
with flags and instrnments, singing hynms in chorus while marching; and should
the region be sprinkled with manor houses and belvederes enlivened by colon­
nades and spires, instead of with thatched cottages, we would verily believe that
the landscape was enchanted, that it was a fairyland, an Olympian abode;' Even
the rape cutters, who lack high standing with Fourier, have a part in the splendor,
and are found "at work in the hills, raising their pavilions above thirty belvederes
crowned with golden rape;' Cited in Annand and Maublanc, Foun'er (Paris,
1937), vol. 2, pp. 203, 204. [WI6a,l]
Forming a mesh-for example, between herding, plowing, and gardening: "It is
not necessary that this interchange he total-say, that all of the twenty men engaged
in tending flocks from 5:00 to 6:30 go off as a group to work in the fields from
6:30 to 8:00. All that is necessary is for each series to provide the others with
several members takcn from its differcnt. groups. The cxchange of a few members
will suffice to establish a linkage or meshing between the different series."' Cited in
Armand and Mauhlanc, Pourier (Paris, 1937), vol. 2, pp. 160-161 (,'Essor de la
I.papillonncm).'11 [W16a,2]
It is not just the despotism but also the moralism dmt Fourier hates in the great
Revolution. He presents the subde division of labor among Harmoniam as the
antidlesis of egalili, and their keen competition as an alternative to }i-aternili.
[WI6a,3]
In Le Nouveau Monde industriel (pp. 281-282), Fourier's rancor against Pestalozzi
is very evident. He says he took up Pestalozzi's "intuitive method" in his Traite