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  • The first Socialists, the primitive school of Prudhon and Louis Blanc, postulated the ownership, management and control by officers of the State commanding all the means of production, and the distribution of all the results of labour.

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  • Prudhon has won a name for talents, and has frequently written with real force -- but such propositions are a disgrace to any man who has ever possessed a good reputation.

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

  • They reminded me of what a materialist said of the portraits of Prudhon, -- that they were enough to make one believe in the immortality of the soul.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

  • His last works show him trying to fall in with the new ideas; they are a curious compromise between his style and that of Prudhon and the Directory.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • M. Prudhon -- 'Prudhon is a madman; who cares for Prudhon?'

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

  • Prudhon meant by saying that 'property is theft'; and what a poor Welsh clergyman of the seventeenth century by proclaiming in verse and prose that he was heir of all the world, and properties, hedges, boundaries, landmarks meant nothing to him, since all was his that his soul enjoyed; yes, and even what inspired him to pen this golden sentence --

    From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • She was to go as the Empress Josephine, after the Prudhon portrait in the Louvre.

    The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

  • As in the case of Prudhon his zeal for the non-existent and hatred of the actual bordered on madness, as when he included most of the results of art, literature, and science in his comprehensive anathemas.

    The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) John Holland Rose 1898

  • France_; Clément, _Prudhon_; Delaborde, _OEuvre de Paul

    A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894

  • Lomont, Lobre, and others, he is still their master, still the possessor of a highly individualised style, and in portraiture the successor to such diverse painters as Prudhon, Ricard, and Whistler.

    Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

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