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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- French thinker who advocated a society governed by technocrats, in which poverty would be abolished and religion replaced by rationalism. Among his works are The New Christianity (1825).
- French diplomat and writer whose memoirs of the court of Louis XIV are a valuable historical source.
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For this reason, among others, a number of empirically-minded theorists, such as Saint-Simon and
CAUSATION IN HISTORY PATRICK GARDINER 1968
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Among the galaxy of dreamers such as Saint-Simon, Fourier, Pierre Leroux, Louis Blanc, Quinet, &c., we find that only Auguste Comte understood that a transformation of manners and ideas must precede political reorganisation.
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Matthew Gilson Joseph Epstein Perhaps with this last reference he is playing off a quote from Saint-Simon: "Mme de Saint Simon, all goodness, tried in vain to check our most outrageous utterances, but the brakes were off and there ensued the most fearful struggle between the expression of sentiments that, humanly speaking, were quite natural, and the sensations that they were not altogether Christian."
Boulevardier's Delight Henry Allen 2011
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Fashions of this kind flowed from the French court, and Louis XIV liked wearing them — as did the Duc de Saint-Simon, among others.
Scarlet Heels 2009
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The first is about the Duc de Saint-Simon, the great tittle-tattler of the court of Louis XIV.
Boulevardier's Delight Henry Allen 2011
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Putting aside individuals like Babeuf, who only later became identified with the term, the first “socialists” are generally considered to be the followers of Saint-Simon, whose first writings were shortly after1800.
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Fashions of this kind flowed from the French court, and Louis XIV liked wearing them — as did the Duc de Saint-Simon, among others.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Putting aside individuals like Babeuf, who only later became identified with the term, the first “socialists” are generally considered to be the followers of Saint-Simon, whose first writings were shortly after 1800.
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More precisely, in The Fatal Conceit Hayek traces it more precisely to Saint-Simon, although he does see Saint-Simon as representing the Cartesian tradition.
Hayek and Anti-capitalist Intellectuals, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Admired by Thomas Jefferson, Callieres won high marks from Saint-Simon, himself no slouch of a diplomat, as someone who always spoke truth to power.
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