TO 
PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
with sudden love for the human species and its institutions, and 
the human species is astonished, and calls the refractory animal 
stupid. Your pardon, gentlemen, but here the gn ater ass of the 
two, is not that one which has been supposed so. I boldly join 
my protest against repugnant labor with those of the savage and 
the zebra, and so long as the association of the active forces of 
society shall not have emancipated the laborer from the oppres- 
sion of capital, I also shall sustain, that the most terrible impre- 
cation against one’s enemy is that of the zebra: Mayest thou be 
reduced to plow the field ! 
The animals connected with man are divided into tAvo categories, 
that of the auxiliaries, who bring all their faculties to the service 
of man, like the dog and the horse ; and that of the domesticated or 
tamed animals, which .are contented to Jive under his laws, to bring 
him the tribute of their fleece or their flesh. 
THE DOG. 
In the begmning God created man, and seeing him so feeble, 
He gave him the dog. 
He charged the dog to see, to hear, to feel, and to run for man. 
And in order that the dog should belong Avholly to man, he 
titled him exclusively in friendship and in devotion — affections of the 
major mode. He placed in his heart the most profound contempt 
for the joys of the family and of paternity. He limited in him the 
sentiment of love to the brutal instinct of reproduction. He left 
the minor passions — love and familism — to the inferior canine race, 
to the fox, so dear to the English. 
The dog, who is the most docile and most intelligent of all an- 
imals, took care not to disobey the will of G od. He became the 
devoted servant and police officer of man. 
The dog is, in every society founded like ours on individual 
property, the vigilant guardian and heroic defender of what is 
called public order and property. That citizen with hoarse voice 
and tattered garments, has a look rather suspicious for property, 
the dog stops him rudely to ask his passport. But as the major- 
ity has its principles, the minority also has its own, and both have 
