RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD. 163 
out affection and sympathy. Many writers are even of opinion 
that peace is henceforth impossible between the two parties, since 
so much blood has flowed on both sides. 
I should partake this opinion were it not that the Beast — the 
beast even most addicted to vengeance and carnage — has always 
discriminated between man and woman, and has never confounded 
the latter in his homicidal hatred. Right or wrong, the beast has 
always had faith in the charity of woman ; perhaps this confidence 
will not be deceived, and woman may yet be the ark of alliance 
between the two kingdoms. I hope for us all. Have we not seen 
how the turtle-doves of the Tuilleries were tamed — that powerful 
demonstration of the seductive charm of Parisian beauty ? They 
speak of the intractable character of the zebra — of the wild sheep 
— of the Asiatic buffalo, but they do not reflect that these species 
live amid atrocious human populations, hideous in form and in 
manners, and whose greatest happiness consists in making war, in 
destroying and even devouring each other. Are these, in good 
faith, spectacles well calculated to edify the beasts on the supe- 
riority of human intelligence, and is anthropophagy the sacred 
character with which God has marked man, in order that by this 
sio’n every creature should recognize him for its master ? Has his- 
tory a single example to cite that ever zebra or buffalo, denatural- 
ized, has exchanged father, or mother, or child for a bottle of 
brandy ? . . . that man, guilty of these crimes, should have the right 
to accuse these quadrupeds of criminal disobedience to the laws 
of God ? Let us begin by acting as kings, before looking to be 
respected in this character ; and when in our madness we sink 
ourselves below the brutes, let us not find it strange that the 
brute, more sensible than we are, should despise us and repudi- 
ate our yoke ! 
The wild sheep has, like the zebra, the right of insurrection 
against the tyranny of the civilizee, but from its legitimate repul- 
sions against the human beings of the lymbic societies, I draw no pre- 
judices against its future dispositions for the human beings of the 
era of harmony. The zebra, the quagga, the daw, and the hem- 
ione, born steeds of the infantine cavalry, can never be justly call- 
ed upon for the service of man, until after the emancipation of the 
