
Utopian and Scientific



Paul Brown, “A Moral Catechism” (1822)
An appendix to Paul Brown’s 1822 work, An Enquiry Concerning the Nature, End and Practicability of a Course of Philosophical Education. It contains a rather fascinating attempt to sketch out a system of virtues, faculties […]

John Adolphus Etzler and Andreas Bernardus Smolnikar
Related links: The Paradise within the Reach of All Men, without Labour, by Powers of Nature and Machinery (1836) [Archive.org] The New World or Mechanical System (1841) [Archive.org] Patents Mode of Propelling Locomotives by Stationary […]

Charles Fourier, Theory of Universal Unity: Avant-propos
NOTES: These texts form part of an attempt to compare the English translations of Fourier’s works produced in the mid-19th century with the original texts, part of the project of assessing what work remains to […]

Henry Olerich, “A Cityless and Countryless World” (1893)
Reviews: A CITYLESS AND COUNTRYLESS WORLD. BY MARIE LOUISE. Under this caption, Mr. Henry Olerich, of Holstein, Iowa, writes a 447 page book on “Practical Cooperative Individualism.” Like all speculative philosophers, the author believes in […]

Pierre Leroux, “De la doctrine du progrès continu” (1834)
The second volume of the Œuvres de Pierre Leroux begins with a lengthy essay “De la doctrine de la perfectibilité et du progrès continu,” which combines material from this essay and two others. Pierre Leroux […]

Jules Leroux, “Economie politique” (1838)
ÉCONOMIE POLITIQUE. — Ce que l’on a costume de désigner sous ce nom n’est pas la science, mais un système, [1] et comme notre dessein dans l’article que l’on va lire est de nous occuper […]

Notes on Simon Ganneau (the Mapah) and Evadaisme
We notice the death in Paris, a short time ago, of M. Ganneau. To most of our readers this obscure name will awaken no recollections; yet M. Ganneau had thought himself preordained to great things—and had some years ago drawn on himself no small share of public attention in Paris. At a period when new sects were springing up on all sides—when Mormons were crossing the Rocky Mountains, and “unknown tongues” were flourishing in England—he was the founder—we should say, the inventor—of a new religion; which he named “Evadaisme,” and of which he was—to use his own term—the “Mapah.” […]

Pierre Leroux, “De l’Union européenne” (1827)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] “De l’Union européenne” was originally published in Le Globe, 24 novembre 1827. It then appeared as the first essay in the “Appendice aux Trois Discours” in the Œuvres de Pierre […]