no 
PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
beasts should bear their character written in their eye, as flowers 
their names embroidered on the field of their corolla. 
For this reason the old lawyer has the fox in his features, and the 
figure of the usurer reminds you, despite yourself, of the vulture. 
The Greek people, which so admirably understood the law of 
universal analogy, the Greek people has celebrated in its poems 
the blue eye of the ruminant. 
Proud Juno, the queen of Pagan Olympus, was highly flattered 
to hear herself called the ox-eyed goddess by those 
who paid their court to her. The Persians, the Arabs, a crowd 
of yellow and black poets of the equinoctial line, have exhausted 
the most hyperbolical formulas of adoiation to celebrate the soft 
glance of the gazelle. Had fate made me a Persian lover, I con- 
fess I should have felt scruples in attributing the glance of the 
woman I loved to the gazelle, when it is evidently the gazelle 
which has borrowed its eye from the woman beloved. There is 
always something gained, I think, in calling things as they are. 
And as all these innocent species were destined to nourish the 
mischief-doers, with man at their head ; as they all symbolize the 
laborer, the just, oppressed, persecuted by the coalition of para- 
sites, God has stamped their faces with the seal of victim. To 
the most persecuted races of fallow deer, stag, roebuck, etc. — to 
those mild eyes, wide open, so full of innocence — He has given the 
faculty of tears — a gift which He obstinately refused to the dog, 
and wisely has He acted, for the dog might have abused such a 
means of seduction to get the better of man. 
A gi eat event in the primitive society was the conquest of the 
bud, and long was it talked of. The dog had a large share in this 
important victory of man over the brute : history says too little of 
it ; ingratitude is the prevalent vice of the man of lymbic societies. 
From the day when the docile hull accepted service, society passed 
from the savage to the patriarchal condition; an immense step! 
This was the first redemption of humanity after its foil, and the 
gratitude of a world rescued from hunger, reared altars to the con- 
querors of the bull, to the inventors of the plow. Egypt built 
temples to the ox Apis as to the dog Anubis. Greece, wise imi- 
tator of Egypt, admitted Bacchus and Triptolemus to the rank of 
