Osiris Oliphant

“Eh! what does it matter that he begins at a young age with the job of butcher, since everything is linked in the system of societary studies! The work of butchery will lead like others to all sciences. Indeed, Nero will learn early to judge by eye the difference in the flesh and fat of animals fed with such and such fodder, fattened according to such and such system. These remarks are linked to the rivalries which exist between the butchers of Tibur and those of the neighboring phalanxes, then between the Tiburians partisans or rivals of such and such system of fertilizer. Nero will thus become an agronomist on fodder and vegetables given to livestock. This knowledge will lead him to others.
Let us add that the young Nero, raised in a Phalanx, will have satisfied there from the age of 4 twenty other inclinations that the wise Seneca would have stifled for the good of morality, and these various tastes, developed early, will lead the young Nero to twenty kinds of useful studies. Little by little he will find himself initiated into all the sciences by the sole impulse of these inclinations reputed to be vicious in Civilization and repressed in children.
What happens today with this repression? Nature is hindered, but it is not destroyed; it was not able, from a young age, to exercise itself usefully on industry, it will reappear later, usque recurret , and the bloodthirsty inclinations of Nero will be exercised at the expense of humanity. It is therefore not Nero who is vicious, it is Civilization which did not know how to use its inclinations, and which forces them to reappear in countermarch or recurrence, an effect which is always disastrous and which disguises the passions and makes them as harmful as they would have been useful.”
― Charles Fourier