Nicolas René Désiré Lemoyne, Letters addressed to people sym - Lot 327

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Nicolas René Désiré Lemoyne, Letters addressed to people sym - Lot 327
Nicolas René Désiré Lemoyne, Letters addressed to people sympathetic to social and providential ideas by Mr Médius Le Moyne, retired chief engineer of Ponts et Chaussées, former student of the École Impérial (sic) Polytechnique, author of : Agronomic Calculations and Social Considerations; Barony of Asylum; Merging Hierarchical Doctrine; Construction of a True, Just, Affective and Free Society. Paris, Metz, Librairie de la Renaissance, Librairie Linden, 1865. In-8 paperback of XL-544 pp., printed cover of the period. First edition. "What I wanted to teach is especially the organization of a social microcosm, of a miniature society, which guarantees both order and freedom; that is to say, unity of direction and the greatest expansion of individual autonomies. For this purpose, I employ a hierarchy, free of constraint and despotism, to which I give the qualification of fusionary. "Twenty letters on providential philosophy, the general division of sciences, the institution of authority, the methods of classification applied to the cosmological sciences, the studies on the laws of mortality, vitality, population and tontine laws, etc., etc., etc. Autograph signed by the author: "To Mr. Delbruck offered by the author Medius 5 quai Richepance Metz. Lemoyne". Angular restoration on the front cover. Blavier, who quotes him on p. 149, dismisses Lemoyne from the Literary Fools as are "small religions, sects and mystics". Delbo, p. 75.
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