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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
If the shepherds of Spanish Moesta, who every year conduct 
millions of merinos from the Pyrenees to Estremaduia, had the 
wisdom to adopt the Helvetic method, the assistance of a single 
dog, furnished with a bell in /a sharp, or in 7ni or in re, would en- 
able each shepherd to conduct without difficulty a herd of ten 
thousand head. 
I am able to guarantee to the shepherds of Moesta the good 
dispositions of the dogs. 
I know the dog ; he will always do for man more than man 
asks of him. 
I also suggest that the note sol, if there is absolutely such a 
natural sound — analogous to the yellow ray, and corresponding 
with the passion familism — is the favorite note of the Puminants, 
as maternity is the strongest of their affections. 
What is true of the cow and the goat, is equally so of the doe, 
the roe, and other rebels of this family. 
Another noble instinct of the Puminant is its passion for salt. 
Whatever is indispensable, or only useful to man, God care- 
fully multiplies, so that it is found everywhere within the reach of 
His creatures. 
Thus He has done for sugar and for salt — two substances emi- 
nently necessary to man’s nourishment, and destined to season all 
his food. He has placed sugar in all fruits, in all grains, and in all 
stalks. He has given reeds of the torrid zone to pour it out from 
their long joints, by merely squeezing, so that man might need 
only to stoop in order to take it, and to compound with it deli- 
cious food and restorative drinks. He has willed that this precious 
provision should be for the people of the burning zones what wine 
has been for those of temperate zones, a means of connection and 
of exchange with the other countries of the globe. 
Thus would sugar now be the most common and the cheapest 
of aliments, had not the civilizee found means of obstructing its 
production, and of rendering it, by taxes, inaccessible to the poor. 
One of the supreme delights of the civilizee would seem to be 
in destroying the works of the Creator, so as to have occasion to 
give’ himself infinite trouble to repair his folly and to remake the 
work of God. Behold him at this moment occupied in re-forest- 
