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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
odor it exhales does not symbolize a great charm of attraction. 
It is the emblem of brutal sensualism; the Greek, Jewish, and 
Christian religions are here in accord with analogy. 
The Greeks did not content themselves with sacrificing the goat 
to Bacchus, as one of the enemies to the vine, and scourges of 
attractive labor ; they covered their Satyrs, those inveterate ad- 
versaries of the right of free love, with the mask and character 
of this animal, in order to blast gross sensual love with a keen dis- 
approbation, to say that exclusively sensual passion degrades man 
to the level of the brute. It is known that the Jews every year 
loaded a goat with their sins, and which they afterward drove 
aw^ay into the wilderness, at the same time sacrificing another as 
a sin-ofifering to the Lord, by means of wdiich every sinner went 
forth white as snow and free to work anew for his perdition. 
I admire this convenient process of expiation. The Christians 
had little trouble in metamorphosing the ancient Satyr into Satan. 
I do not clearly see why the image of the demon of the flesh, in 
undergoing its last change, has gained a pair of wings ; probably 
from the bat, supreme type of the scarecrow, or flitting nightmare 
of terrified imaginations, which hangs its terrors over death — that 
passage to the aromal life — when the devil is supposed to seize 
on his property in souls. 
The essential point here to be developed, is that the opinion of 
all times and of all peoples has been faithful in condemning sim- 
ple luxury, and in recognizing the character of divine passion only 
in compound love, the combined development of soul and sense. I 
am sorry to overwhelm with my sentence a poor beast already 
burdened with the iniquities of Israel ; but I cannot find a word 
of indulgence for an emblem of brute luxury, and an enemy of 
the vintage and of agriculture. 
The he goat has from time immemorial crossed with the ewe, 
and the she goat with the ram. A mixed species has resulted, 
very common in America, and very precious for the beauty of its 
fleece. 
The goat may thus still, as an agent of transition, render great 
services to man. 
The She Goat, capricious and easy of virtue, addicted to wander- 
