Modern thinkers principally upon social science; what they think and why; . ssful; his character waafull of virtues, and yet not attractive, and his politicalteachings have been at once the most famous and mostfallacious of their time. The fallacy that all men araequal is a continual incitement to revolution, since it iaonly during periods of anarchy, when each man is pow-e less, that it is true. As order returns and powersl>e(.orae unequally distributed, the equality of men dis-appears, since, in tiie exercise of all actual power, Order is heavens first law, and this confessed,Some are, an
Modern thinkers principally upon social science; what they think and why; . ssful; his character waafull of virtues, and yet not attractive, and his politicalteachings have been at once the most famous and mostfallacious of their time. The fallacy that all men araequal is a continual incitement to revolution, since it iaonly during periods of anarchy, when each man is pow-e less, that it is true. As order returns and powersl>e(.orae unequally distributed, the equality of men dis-appears, since, in tiie exercise of all actual power, Order is heavens first law, and this confessed,Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. So Paines doctrine, that thehereditary transmission ofpower is robbery, applies as logically to the hereditarytransmission of property as of power, thus mergingdemocracy into socialism. Paine, therefore, is theapostle of chronic revolution. The opposite of revolu-tion is statesmanship, but before this can prevail, aphilosophy of statesmanship must supersede, in thepopular mind, that gospel of revolution which Paine didso much to (JlIAKLES CHAKLES FOUKIEK. ICO CHAELES FOURIER. BIOGKAPHICAL SKETCtl. Francois Cliarles Marie Fourier was born in 1772 atBesancon, in France, and died in Paris, Oct. 10, jontli he was precocious, and, throughout life, hismind was of that brilliant order, so certain to be mis-understood by the simple and dull, who free allquestions from paradoxes by disregarding so much ofthe facts as renders them paradoxical. At thirteen hetook the prizes for French themes and Latin verse in theschool of his town. Mathematics, botany, and musicwere his favorite studies, and all his works are pervadedwith illustrations borrowed from these three branches ofstudy, pursued to a degree of abstruseness that rendersthem obscure to one not familiar with the reconditemysticisms pertaining to numbers, flowers and was also from the first a diligent student of geog-i-a]ihy, both in its mathematical aspects, as t
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