TERROR OF DEATH : MISERIES OF LIFE. 
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most victims are the legions drawn from the poorest countries, 
especially from mountains. Thus the Supreme Ordainer has pro- 
portioned the dread of death and the love of existence in man to 
the miseries of his life. It was most necessary that the man of 
the lymbic societies should be nailed to his evils by an invincible 
power, lest he should desire to break the clamp which fastens him 
to temporary suffering. 
Had God committed the imprudence of revealing to the man 
of the accursed societies, civilization, barbarism, etc., the knowledge 
of his ulterior destinies, and of the endless enjoyments of the 
aromal life, normal life of the species ; man henceforth would only 
have aspired to this superior life, and the sentiment of his duties 
would have been impotent to struggle in his heart against the in- 
cessant temptations of suicide. But let the era of harmony come, 
when universal happiness shall convert this earth into a place of 
delights, where no motive again shall urge the unhappy mortal to 
emancipate himself from the torments of life — when the revelation 
shall be no longer dangerous, and God will not delay it. Upon the 
most inaccessible crests of the Pyrenees and the French Alps still 
to this day live some rare relics of several families of leaping ru- 
minants, the wild goat, the chamois, the isard. The wild sheep is 
exclusively met with on the highest mountains of the interior of 
Corsica. An unparalleled elasticity of muscle distinguishes these 
inoffensive quadrupeds, which leap the abysses with the lightness 
of a bird. They are not hunted like the hare, the stag, and the 
roebuck. They are waited for in ambush and assassinated. Where 
neither dog nor bird work in concert with man there is no chase ; 
since to chase means to pursue. Now the dog of the precipice 
is wanting as well as the fishing dog to the series of canines, and 
man has not yet succeeded in training the bird of prey for the 
chamois chase as he has for that of the gazelle. There the skill 
of the marksman is everything. 
