! The living soul demands life, the soul wonât obey the rules of mechanics, the soul is an object of suspicion, the soul is retrograde! But what they want though it smells of death and can be made of india-rubber, at least is not alive, has no will, is servile and wonât revolt! And it comes in the end to their reducing everything to the building of walls and the planning of rooms and passages in a phalanstery! The phalanstery is ready, indeed, but your human nature is not ready for the phalansteryâ âit wants life, it hasnât completed its vital process, itâs too soon for the graveyard! You canât skip over nature by logic. Logic presupposes three possibilities, but there are millions! Cut away a million, and reduce it all to the question of comfort! Thatâs the easiest solution of the problem! Itâs seductively clear and you musnât think about it. Thatâs the great thing, you mustnât think! The whole secret of life in two pages of print!â
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