JUDGMENT OF MAN BY THE BEAST. 
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CHAPTER III. 
ANIMALS ALLIED WITH MAN AUXILIAEY AND 
DOMESTIC. 
The secret ambition of all animals is to connect themselves with 
Man, their legitimate sovereign, and yet, perhaps, up to this day 
the Dog alone has had the courage to express his opinion. 
All the beasts, birds, and quadrupeds, with a few exceptions, 
desire sincerely to fraternize with man ; and yet it is the utmost, 
if during six thousand years, out of several thousand beasts, man 
has been able to draw around him forty. I know no bloodier con- 
demnation of the present social phase than this simple comparison. 
The impotence of the civilizee to assemble the beasts, is a geo- 
metrical proof of the subversive character of civilization. I hear 
the Zebra every day abused for his unsociable and ferocious hu- 
mor, for his untamableness, and his invincible horror of work. 
The zebra is the emblem of the savage ; he partakes his profound 
antipathy for civilized labor, and affects to tatoo himself in the 
same way. I confess that I do not understand these reproaches, 
and consider it on the contrary perfectly legitimate that the 
zebra should hold the men of the present time in contempt and 
aversion. Why, here is an animal that has opened his eyes to 
the light in the country of the Hottentots, of the Namaquois or 
the Amaz onions, the most hideous people in the world ; that has 
had under his eyes, during all his youth, only scenes of carnage 
and of cannibalism fit to sicken his stomach ; and transported to 
Europe by a singular concurrence of painful circumstances, has 
there witnessed those barbarous punishments which man is in the 
habit of inflicting on the unfortunate creatures that have had the 
imprudence to confide in him. This animal is not, therefore, seized 
