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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
The fox marries ; the dog not, because there are some mien born 
for marriage and others for celibacy. 
The dog does not marry because he is exclusively titled in the 
characters of friendship and ambition ; that is to say, because the 
dog has a destiny of devotion and of social unity to accomplish, 
and that it does not accord with the interests of the human spe- 
cies, queen of the globe, that the dog should be distracted from 
his occupations of a superior order by the cares of a family. The 
dog must be ready to follow man in all places at all hours, ready 
to shed his blood for him to the last drop. 
The household, which fixes the father to the soil by his family 
is the corner-stone of selfishness — the tomb of devotion. 
The stag, which bears the series on his brow like a standard, 
never marries. Great geniuses have no wife, because in the lym- 
bic societies the family is a burden, and the great revealers whose 
mission is to enlighten the world and to perish in their task, must 
commence by emancipating themselves from every hindrance capa- 
ble of impeding their course. It is received, even in civilization, 
that married men make bad soldiers. It was the opinion of the 
Emperor Napoleon, who ought to know how this is, having con- 
sumed many of them. 
The Catholic religion, which has stated itself as a religion of 
devotion, has been consistent with its principle in condemning its 
ministers to celibacy. We may not desire the Catholic religion at 
all, but to desire it without the celibacy of its priests is to desire 
an absurdity. 
Same solution for the cock, emblem of chivalry and vigilance, 
who has to watch over the tribe too much to have time to occupy 
himself with a simple family. The fox, which lives on rapine and 
plunder, and by whom man cannot profit for the conquest or em- 
bellishment of the globe — the fox, an ignoble race, destined one 
day to disappear from the face of the earth — may marry without 
any evil result for humanity ; and he marries precisely to teach us 
to detest the separate family household — -source of all vices and 
of all miseries. 
The separated household and the fox have on their side' hypo- 
critical moralists, who do not fail to throw their stone at the dog 
