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A SAYING OF SAINT-SIMON’S

 ...“There is Saint-Simon’s well-known assertion, on
account of which a court charge was brought against
him, that the loss France would suffer by the sudden
death of a thousand of her highest officials or the members
of the royal family would be infinitely smaller than that
which would be caused by the death of a thousand of
her best workers” (p. 11 in Emil Kaler’s “Wilhelm
Weitling”, Zurich, 1887, No. XI of the Sozialdemokra-
tische Bibliothek
).

 
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 According to the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia,
German edition, Saint-Simon said this not about
1,000, but about 10,000 (N.B.)—in “A Political
Parable”, in the first issue of L’Organisateur
1820).
 
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