Note 4 — Chapter I · FOUNDERS OF THE COLONY
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Frederic Engels had a very high appreciation of Fourier; he said: “Fourier is not only a critic; his imperturbable serene nature makes him a satirist, and assuredly one of the greatest satirists of all times.... He was the first to declare that in any given society the degree of woman’s emancipation is the natural measure of the general emancipation.” See Frederic Engels, op. cit., 64-65. Ferrari, “Des Idées de L’école de M. Fourier depuïs 1830” in Revue des Deux Mondes, XI, August 1, 1845, No. 3, 389-434.