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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY, 
teaching which produces these wonders, and to which these pre- 
tended ignorantin brothers — who charge themselves with the educa- 
tion of poor children, have alone dared to open an asylum in their 
establishments — is the method of Rousseau, perfected by Galin, 
It is a method brought to light twenty years since, and now 
appreciable by experience. It has made of the science of music — 
the easiest and most elementary of all ’the sciences of pleasure — 
a science within the reach of all ages, of all professions, of all 
fortunes. The president of a great university, or a man of large 
fortune, might generalize the employment of this method, whose 
adoption will flood with harmony the rising generation. The in- 
defatigable disciples of this method are multiplying their expe- 
riences, demanding public competitions — competitions at their own 
expense — to have done with the routine procedures, to emancipate 
childhood from the torments of an absurd and repugnant appren- 
ticeship, to augment indefinitely the sum of enjoyments for all. 
I once asked M. Eugene Sue, whose generous sympathies ex- 
tend to all the seekers of truth, and to all the deliverers of the 
poor, an honorable mention for the method of Galin and its inde- 
fatigable propagators, Dr. Emile Cheve, Madame Cheve, M. Aime 
Paris. I besought the celebrated romancer to profit by the priv- 
ilege of his talent and of his popularity, to give the weight of his 
name to the abolition of one of the tortures of present education, 
music teaching by the old method — a method condemned by 
Weber, by Cherubini, by Auber. 'No pity, said I to him, for this 
sorry game that I have given over to you, for the night-birds that 
hoot at the light, for those sworn torturers of childhood, who 
would retard without scruples the progress of half a century to 
touch their salaries a week sooner. Strike — fear not — the accents 
of popular gratitude will always be strong enough to cover the im- 
precations of sheltered obscurantism. 
M. Eugene Sue has listened to my request, and on the consci- 
entious relation made to him, by a professional man, of the mar- 
velous results of the Galin method, the noble writer has rendered 
to the devotion of its propagators the public homage which was 
due them. Thanks to you, M. Eugene Sue, in the name of all the 
friends of progress ! 
