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and who, having always heard in his part of the country, that 
years of great heat and of excessive drowth were eminently favor- 
able to the sale of whiter has not been able to imagine that such a 
temperature could have a less happy influence on the fruits of the 
earth. Then the country has been found destitute in the day of 
need, and the criminal improvidence of power has made of public 
misery a new chance for the pawnbroker and the monopolizer. 
Always the same note! Poor agriculture 1 Poor France 1 
While waiting for another administration, more provident and 
more humane, to occupy itself seriously with repairing and com- 
pleting the zoological apparatus of France, let us reckon up the 
list of mammiferous quadrupeds. 
This part of the zoological apparatus of France, including the 
isle of Corsica, contains sixty and some odd pieces. 
I have spoken of the falsehood of the different systems of zoo- 
logical nomenclature adopted by offlcial science. I have indicated 
the true classification, that which rests on the analogy of passion- 
al relations between Man and created objects. 
Unfortunately, I have not under my hand the table of all the 
types of human character, so as to be able to refer each piece of 
the zoological apparatus to its characterial title, and it will be im- 
possible to write a passional nomenclature of beasts before the 
study of Man has been completed, and the movement of his pas- 
sional gamut perfectly circumscribed and analyzed. 
I shall nevertheless try to indicate the method as often as it 
shall be possible for me to do so in a truncated treatise on zoology, 
where the series is at every moment interrupted by omissions, I 
shall tell the true name, the characterial title of the individual, or 
of the species ; but I have considered that the simplest method to 
remain faithful to analogy, and still be clear, was to call a cat first 
a cat, like the rest of the world, then to make the insufficiency or 
falsehood of such a denomination felt in passing; finally to indi- 
cate a better one, based on the rational appreciation of passional 
titles. I shall reject absolutely only those names which are too 
absurd. The space which I shall accord to the study of the spe- 
cies will be proportional to the importance of the part that each 
of them play in the history of our pleasures and of our interests. 
