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had just becn confided to the castes : we are wit- 

 nesses of the formation of the social hiérarchies. 

 The présent initialors are the severe patriciates be- 

 come the Titans of the civil world , which is the 

 world of humanity ; and thèse patriciates must in 

 their turn disappear , for in the universe ail is 

 linked and progressive. 



« A Titan of the third âge had survived. He long 

 wandered from désert counlry to désert country. 

 A woman belonging to the same sphère of thoughts 

 and power being nowhere to be found on the 

 earth , marriage was forbidden to the Titan , and 

 his race was inexorably doomed to end in solitude. 

 He could find no fixed dwelling , till a transfor- 

 mation should be operated in him , till he should 

 consent to recognize Jupiter for king of the âge 

 that had just commenced , till in fine , he should 

 be willing to identify himself with the newly 

 born human institutions , for them to become in- 

 dépendant heirs of the primitive traditions and 

 precepts. As a Titan he knew the intimate nature 

 of ail beings , and he did not disdain human 

 nature. His cosmogonie name , for ever lost in the 

 darkness of âges gone by , was changed into an 

 opical name, to express the new sphère in which he 

 was henceforward to remain ; thus he became Ta- 

 laon. Then only could he fix his] dwelling , and 

 choose a mate to crown with flowers his green 

 old âge. Notwithstanding this , his children are not 

 to enjoy a complète destiny , one only daughter 

 will be given him , and even she will be but a 

 hrilliant apparition on the earth. 



