An Egyptian limestone relief, c1400 BC mb-code AAHZ001616 Fourier and Proudhon

Fourier and Proudhon

Plate 2 from an unpublished paper endorsed 'An account of a course of experiments made by Mark Beaufoy Esqr

That passage is taken to be an affirmation of the complementary nature of action and consciousness (or contemplation) -- "He whose own heart is pure makes no judgment: there is no good or bad in what is done without desire

He was arrested and tried for having been an accomplice of Booth's and was sentenced to six years in prison

An Egyptian limestone relief, c1400 BC mb-code AAHZ001616 Fourier and ProudhonAn Egyptian limestone relief, c1400 BC (1936). From a tomb of the 18th Dynasty. Found in the collection of the Louvre, Paris. Plate taken from The Art of Ancient Egypt, published by the Phaidon Press (Vienna, 1936).