harmony in a measure that would be 8 out of 8; the transition law would be abolished; there would moreover be violation of the 3 distributive passions.
The Cabaliste, the 12th passion, would be violated by unanimity which would exclude all opposition.
The Papillonne, the 11th passion, would be violated by the absence of variety (diversion), hesitations and exchanges in the preparatory scenes of a resolution.
The Composite, the 10th passion, would be violated by a weakening of the enthusiasm that needs to brace itself against an obstacle to overcome.
From the absence of opposition result despotism in politics and monotony in pleasures.
One must weigh these rules of movement to understand that the true spirit of Harmony is one that reunites the 7/8 against 1/8 (the absence of opposition being the doctrine of despotism in politics and of monotony in pleasures) and such is the effect I have represented in the debate of Iscora, which offers a result of full harmony conforming to all the rules of unity and transition. The possession of Iscora would lose half its value for the entire assembly if it had been offered or granted without
and the elimination of the 1/8 which is overcome and whose exclusion satisfies the rules of the 3 distributive passions and of transition (save for criticism of the means I employed, means perhaps indecent by the standards of civilized people, but my offense in this case was equivalent to that of the Roman council to which a factious man dares swear that you have done nothing against the laws (sic). I swear, replies Cicero, that I have saved the Republic).
I invite critics to weigh these observations in order to convince themselves or at least to glimpse that their arguments will perish; the tableaux of Harmony will most often and almost always appear absurd though well dressed up with [translation note, text at end of this page is interrupted in all sources, including original manuscript]