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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: shepherd's crook in her hand,--symbolical of the advancement of the
races useful to mankind; she wears on her head the cap of Liberty; her
breasts are sixfold, as the Egyptians carved them--for the Egyptians
foresaw Fourier; her feet are resting on two clasped hands which
embrace a globe,--symbol of the brotherhood of all human races; she
tramples cannon under foot to signify the abolition of war; and I have
tried to make her face express the serenity of triumphant agriculture.
I have also placed beside her an enormous curled cabbage, which,
according to our master, is an image of Harmony. Ah! it is not the
least among Fourier's titles to veneration that he has restored the
gift of thought to plants; he has bound all creation in one by the
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