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 | | This view was combated at the time by Laplace and Fourier on general grounds, and was finally disproved in 1846-1847 as the result of surveys made at the instance of the Societe d'Etudes pour le Canal de Suez. |
 | | This society was organized in 1846 by Prosper Enfantin, the Saint Simonist, who thirteen years before had visited Egypt in connexion with a scheme for making a canal across the isthmus of Suez, which, like the canal across the isthmus of Panama, was part of the Saint Simonist programme for the regeneration of the world. |
 | | The expert commission appointed by this society reported by a majority in favour of Paulin Talabot's plan, according to which the canal would have run from Suez to Alexandria by way of Cairo. |
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