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Sylvain Maréchal, “The Dwarf King” and “A Lesson in Architecture” (1788)

March 18, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

In those days, a young king was inclined to dissipation, even to villainy; it was a hereditary vice. The états-généraux, natural guardians of the sovereign, who had never been emancipated from them, assembled & agreed on a means of correcting the young prince.

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Sylvain Maréchal, “The Pig-Keeper King” (1788)

March 18, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

In those days, a young king was inclined to dissipation, even to villainy; it was a hereditary vice. The états-généraux, natural guardians of the sovereign, who had never been emancipated from them, assembled & agreed on a means of correcting the young prince. One day, when he had abandoned himself completely to his foul penchants, and was plunged into a deep sleep, they seized his royal person; from his palace, they transported him on a litter, still sleeping, to a stable.

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Sylvain Maréchal, “The Ordeal” (1788)

March 18, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

In those times there was an arrogant king, who believed himself molded from a different clay than those who were prepared to obey him. The senate, placed between him & and the people, in order to serve as a mediator, assembled, & agreed to reprimand to him on this subject.

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Sylvain Maréchal, “The Tocsin” (1788)

March 18, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

In those days, a stranger, entering the capital city of a great Empire, heard the tocsin sound for a long time. He questioned the people of the city, wishing to know what misfortune had occurred. Had there been a fire somewhere?

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Sylvain Maréchal, ” Prometheus” (1788)

March 17, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Thus far, the mythologists have misreported the allegorical history of Prometheus. Here are the facts: that ingenious artist of antiquity, having kneaded clay in water, made from it several figures of men, which he animated with the elemental fire. He took great pleasure in his work, like a father in his children.

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Sylvain Maréchal, “Mother Nature before the National Assembly” (1791)

March 10, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Hush for a moment, children! I have a few things to tell you. Listen to your mother; let nature speak.What are you doing here? Why have you been absent from your homes for so long? Let each of your return to your family! This place here is not your place. What do you intend to do?

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Sylvain Maréchal, “Manifesto of the Equals” (1796)

March 10, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Le Manifeste des Egaux Sylvain Maréchal Egalité de fait, dernier but de l’art social.—Condorcet, Tableau de l’esprit humain, page 329. Peuple de France ! Pendant quinze siècle tu as vécu esclave, et par conséquent malheureux. Depuis six années tu respires à peine, dans l’attente de l’indépendance, du bonheur et de l’égalité. L’Egalité ! premier vœu de la nature, premier besoin de l’homme, et principal nœud de toute association légitime ! Peuple de France ! tu n’as pas été plus favorisé que les autres nations qui végètent sur ce globe infortuné !… Toujours et partout la […]

Charles Fourier in the the “Journal de Lyon, Nouvelles de la France et de l’étranger”

February 10, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

It is amusing for me to make so many young muses gossip at will: if I have an article printed, these gentlemen immediately fight against me in verse and prose, in the two newspapers. Aren’t they a little confused being twenty to one? Couldn’t you, gentlemen, talk about anything other than me? Where would your mind be without my madness? You only develop it when I excite it. I Am not so uniform; satire, harmony, the triumvirate, all that is madness for some, good for others; but at least it is varied. You would still have cackled about the problem of women’s liberty, if I had given it.

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Simplism

February 6, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Simplisme / Simplism 3. du SIMPLISME ou cause de la cataracte. Ce reproche de cataracte intellectuelle, adressé à un siècle savant sur divers points, pourrait sembler indécent si je ne l’étayais de preuves très-palpables. Je serai bref sur ce sujet peu flatteur ; il va débrouiller une vieille querelle qui s’élève entre chaque siècle et ses inventeurs. Tout siècle se hâte de dire que les inventeurs ont perdu la raison, parce qu’ils ne sont pas d’accord avec le préjugé d’impossibilité ; mais d’ordinaire, c’est le siècle entier qui, comme au temps de Colomb , manque de raison. La cause de […]

Dictionary of Phalansterian Sociology — A

January 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

ABANDON. — L’abandon des faibles, des enfants el des vieillards est un des caractères de la civilisation empruntés à la sauvagerie. N. 109, 407, 424. — L’ordre civilisé ne pouvant produire que le mal et l’hypocrisie, est impuissant à assurer la protection efficace des faibles; l’assistance de l’enfance y dégénère rapidement en exploitation, sous le masque de la charité, et celle des infirmes et des vieillards en abus. ABANDONMENT. — The abandonment of the weak, of children and of the elderly is one of the characteristics that civilization has borrowed from savagery. New Industrial World.109, 407, 424.—The civilized order can […]