Association in his eyes, he declares, is THE GREATEST PROBLEM OF
MODERN TIMES. It is called, he says, to solve that of the
distribution of the fruits of labor. Though authority can do
nothing towards the solution of this problem, association COULD
DO EVERYTHING. M. Reybaud speaks here like a writer of the
phalansterian school. . . .
M. Reybaud had advanced a little, as one may see. Endowed with
too much good sense and good faith not to perceive the precipice,
he soon felt that he was straying, and began a retrograde
movement. I do not call this about-face a crime on his part: M.
Reybaud is one of those men who cannot justly be held responsible
for their metaphors. He had spoken before reflecting, he
retracted: what more natural! If the socialists must blame any
one, let it be M. Dunoyer, who had prompted M. Reybaud's
recantation by this singular compliment.
M. Dunoyer was not slow in perceiving that his words had not
fallen on closed ears. He relates, for the glory of sound
principles, that, "in a second edition of the `Studies of
Reformers,' M.
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