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owl and tlie bat, ... so false morality and superstition, the idea of 
the wicked God, fear, and imposture, will flee the brain of man 
with the first lights of the dawn of harmony, and the frightful 
nightmare of hell will cease to weigh on our dreams ! 
Simpletons who complain that God has refused to our age the 
revelation of the news of the other life, it is easily seen that you 
do not know what it costs those who know the delights of the 
aromal life, to remain here below. 
The Bat, which has lost so much at the last creation, is des- 
tined to disappear completely at the commencement of the next ; 
creation ISTo. 4. 
CHAPTER V. 
BEASTS WHICH AEE KILLED, BUT HOT CHASED. 
RUMINANTS OF THE GLACIERS : WILD GOAT, CHAMOIS, ISARD. 
WILD SHEEP. LYNX. PERFUMED BEASTS ! WEASEL, MARTEN, 
SKUNK, badger, OTTER, BEAVER. RABBIT, SQUIRREL, BEAR. 
I HAVE defined the verb chase : to 'pursue and taJce with dogs, 
to foixe. No beast whose name precedes is forced, but nearly all 
are hunted or chased, in the vulgar and eminently vicious accepta- 
tion of .that term. To chase may apply well enough indeed to 
the rabbit, the badger, and the weasel (or the mink), which some- 
times require the co-operation of the dog, but is inadmissible for 
ambushing and other kinds of slaughter, which require for their 
success the stillness of the hunter, and the absence of the dog. 
Between the hunter who forces, and the assassin who lies in wait, 
there is just the same difference as between the dog and the cat. 
The bear certainly deserved better than the fox to be admitted 
into the honorable category of beasts of the chase. I have not 
however, placed him there, because there are no bear packs in 
France, and the bear is never forced with dogs. 
