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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY, 
As soon as each has spilt as much blood as possible and real- 
ized in his sphere the greatest amount of evib I hold that each 
should obtain in esteem of men an equal share of glory, or of in- 
famy. Oh, stupid civilizees, who glorify the man-slayers on a 
large scale, and slander the man- slayers on a small scale ; how 
well you deserve the contempt in which your despots hold you. 
I repeat it, the wolf is the robber, the contrabandist, the Saxon, 
who will not accept the sovereignty of the Norman, the Arab 
who wants no French protection. It is an ardent and ambitious 
species which could not bend like the dog to the iniquitous laws of 
the man of lymbic societies. The device of the wolf is this : 
Give me rather dangerous liberty, than safety by submission. 
The wolf is the enemy of civilized and barbarous societies, be- 
cause they are enemies of the law of God. He is the enemy 
of property, because the present system of propeity does not 
recognize for all the members of society the right to life, a right 
which far anticipates those of legal possession ; since the land 
which furnishes all aliments is an element of human existence 
equally indispensable with air and water. 
The least intelligent economist would cry out in alarm if he were 
told that government had conceded to some banker the monopoly 
of the sale of respirable air, or of water ; especially if said banker 
should have forgotten to accord him a small participation <in the 
profits of the affair. Well, I should deplore the poverty of in- 
tellect in these same economists, if they did not understand a pri- 
ori, that the embezzlement of the land by certain individuals, and 
the right to abuse property are quite as dangerous. 
In Arabia it is the water and not the soil which is embezzled — 
which is abandoned to the first occupant, and the government offi- 
cers of this country only consider as factious writers, those who 
protest against the monopoly of the waters. 
When we shall have the monopoly of the air there will come 
some journal in the interest of capital which will treat as crazed 
heads those writers who claim for every member of society a mini- 
mum of oxygen, and which Avill denounce them to the public min- 
istry under pretext of immorality, or of stirring up ill feeling 
against a class of citizens. 
