PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
CHAPTEE I. 
OF THE CHASE, AND ITS IHFLIJElSrCE OH THE DESTIHIES 
OF HUMAHITY. 
Man is king of the earth. To his royalty are attached certain 
attributes called the natural rights of man. The chase is the first 
of these rights. 
The chase is the first and most ancient of the arts. It is anterior 
to the kitchen and to war. Humanity owes it its first great coat 
and its first roast beef. The chase is cotemporaneous with the day 
when the advent of misery closed the paradisaical sera on our globe, 
and shut upon humanity the gates of the garden of Eden ; or, to 
speak more clearly, it is cotemporaneous with the day when man 
fell from Edenism into the savage state, and had to resign himself 
to gain his bread by the sweat of his brow. On this day man in- 
vented the chase to try to raise himself from his fall. 
The chase is the first-born industry of necessity, the first mani- 
festation of the power and the liberty of man. Through it he sig- 
nalizes the act of taking possession of his globe. 
The chase, pivotal industry of the savage, is at the same time 
the point of departure for social progress, the first bound of eman- 
cipating labor, which, thousands of years after, is to reopen for 
humanity the gates of happy destinies. 
The chase is also the most noble employment of the human fac- 
ulties. It is the exercise, par excellence^ to make strong men. The 
