It would please the communists no better, since it involves unequal conditions.

It is repugnant to the friends of free association and equality, in consequence of its tendency to wipe out human character and individuality by suppressing possession, family, and country,--the threefold expression of the human personality.
Of all our active publicists, none seem to me more fertile in resources, richer in imagination, more luxuriant and varied in style, than M.
Considerant.

Nevertheless, I doubt if he will undertake to reestablish his theory of property.

If he has this courage, this is what I would say to him: "Before writing your reply, consider well your plan of action; do not scour the country; have recourse to none of your ordinary expedients; no complaints of civilization; no sarcasms upon equality; no glorification of the phalanstery.

Leave Fourier and the departed in peace, and endeavor only to re-adjust the pieces of your syllogism.