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...inspiration from the Populists, who abhorred all dictatorship; he and his companions used terror because they saw it as the only answer to the violence of the czarist state. But 19th century Europe offered a great many other forms of revolution to shop among. There were Saint-Simon, Fourier, and the other Utopian socialists, intellectual descendants of a small wing of the French Revolutionary Jacobins. There were the secret societies organized by the followers of Louis Auguste Blanqui, an erratic Frenchman who was the first to advocate dictatorship of the proletariat; the British
...Arts and Letters in Manhattan, would have created societies "as horribly inhuman as Orwell's 1984" or his own Brave New World. More's Utopia, said he, is "paternalistic state socialism administered like an old-fashioned boarding school"; Plato advocated childhood conditioning, censorship and "compulsory virtue"; Fourier had "a pathological lust for social tidiness." Said Huxley: "Most utopists have had the souls, but happily not the effective power, of drill sergeants and dictators." Blonde Jean Martin Black, 34, who used to croon coffee commercials for Chock Full O'Nuts when she was married to its bossman...
...into a new definition of Judaism. Certainly Gordon had a romantic sense of the limits of rationality, and a romantic belief in the necessity for personal experience as the source of religion. It is also easy to see that his anti-urban theorizing in the manner of Owen and Fourier, and his very German conception of nationality have contributed much to the more romantic and unfortunate aspects of modern Israel...
...every year in examinations to weed out the weak and encourage the strong," said Courant. The Germans followed suit with a technical school in 1793, and both institutions collected the best minds of all ages. Napoleon drew on the Ecole for his Egyptian campaign, taking the celebrated mathematician Fourier along to decipher hieroglyphics, Courant related...
...Copernicus, Kepler, Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein. † New coinage meaning "collection of topics." * Positivists are the philosophical school, virtually dominant in the U.S. and Britain today, which suggests that philosophy is merely a tool...