Love regulates the relations of the sexes,
Paternity those of ages and generations; Ambition produces hierarchy of
ranks and distinctions among individuals; it establishes in society
gradations of all kinds based upon skill, merit, talent, etc.; it is
opposite in its effects from friendship."--"Social Destiny of Man,"
page 453.
The four social passions correspond to the four primary prismatic
colors of the Newtonian system, to the common chord in music and to
various other natural things. The three intellectual passions
correspond to the other three notes of the musical scale and to three
other prismatic colors; and the five sensitive passions correspond to
the five semi-tones, and also to five intermediate colors of the prism.
Now this at first sight looks very much like a scheme or a notion, but
the founder of this doctrine lays his claim to a higher judgment. He
says practically, "These are facts founded in nature by God himself."
Let me give you his own words, often reiterated: "I give no theory of
my own, I deduce. If I have deduced erroneously let others establish
the true deduction." Can words be more simple or more modest?
These "passions," or "faculties," if you like the last word better, as
taught in the general schools of theology, are all at war with one
another, but as taught by the school of Fourier will all work
harmoniously together when right material conditions exist.
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