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There is no idea more novel, more surprising, than that of associating three hundred families of different degrees of fortune, knowledge and capacity.

— Charles Fourier The Theory of Social Organization (1876)

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The familial union presents as well a mixture of inconvenient ages and characters that inhibit conversation. Morality engenders a frigid atmosphere, as in all places where it reigns.

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