EXPIRES: 1858

WRITTEN: 1808

The hordes are making daily inroads into the cultivated areas of Asia, spilling further and further beyond their natural boundary, the Himalayan mountain range that stretches from Bokhara to China. At our very gates, the hordes are surging all over Turkey. Fifty more years of persecution from the Ottoman Empire and we shall see the whole of that fine empire returned to the life of nomads or Tartars, who are making terrifying progress against Turkish domination.

Charles Fourier

The Theory of the Four Movements

Written: 1808

Addressed to: 1858

Source: The Theory of the Four Movements

Author: Charles Fourier

Category: Culture & Society

Annotation

2000

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