Note 73 — Chapter V · FOURIER.
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Vide Fourier’s Œuvres, tome ii. pp. 142-147, and references there given. Lorenz von Stein sets a high value on the philosophical value of this classification, as compared with similar efforts of Pythagoras and Bossuet. Although appreciative, he criticises Fourier vigorously, and shows the contradictions involved in his classification (vide Stein, “Sociale Bewegung,” Bd. ii. SS. 276-285).