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II 



Man loves the dog, but how 

 much more ought he to love it 

 if he considered, in the inflexible 

 harmony of the laws of nature, 

 the sole exception, which is that 

 love of a being that succeeds in 

 piercing, in order to draw closer 

 to us, the partitions, every else- 

 where impermeable, that separate 

 the species ! We are alone, abso- 

 lutely alone on this chance planet ; 

 and amid all the forms of life that 

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