To me the manner in which your poorer classes are housed in the suburbs, packed closely together in flimsy buildings, where every sound can be heard, suggests a form of socialismcommunism, or perhaps rather the phalansterian system.'

True, he did not have occasion to perambulate what he would doubtless have called the 'phalansterian' streets of new South Wimbledon.

Nothing in the way of a terrace house would suit; for M. Zola was not yet a phalansterian.