I tried Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr/ for the French equivalent, "l'ordre spontané". As it appears, it was used by Auguste Comte in _Cours de philosophie positive_ (50e Leçon. Considérations préliminaires sur la statique sociale, ou théorie générale de l'ordre spontané des sociétés humaines) and in _Discours sur l'esprit positif_, and also by Charles Fourier in his manuscripts published in _La Phalange_ . Later on, the phrase occurs in M.Bakunin's article "L'Empire knouto-germanique et la Révolution sociale". See http://anarlivres.free.fr/pages/documents/lempire_knoutogermanique.doc Yuri Tulupenko