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GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ANALOGY. 
AIM OF THE WORK: 
OmaiN OF BEASTS, AND PASSION^AL ANALOGY; 
DE OMNI RE SCIBILI ET DE QUIBUSDAM ALUS. 
The title of this work tells the spirit in which it has been con- 
ceived. 
It is a treatise on passional zoology, which is a sort of zoology 
as yet a virgin theme to learned professors. 
It is also a treatise on hunting, concerning all the animals of 
France, but in which the chase is considered from a higher point 
of view than usual, and which says little on the art of searching 
the woods, and of judging by the track or scent of a ten prong 
stag, an art that is not learned from books. 
It is the conscientious and faithful resume of the impassioned 
studies of a hunter who, after living thirty years and more in the 
intimac}:^ of the beasts of his country, and having had much pleas- 
ure with them, has experienced the necessity to offer them a pub- 
lic testimony of his esteem and gratitude. It is the work of a 
simple and straightforward spirit, addressing itself to hearts equal, 
ly unsophisticated. 
If some spots of erudition stain its pages, it is because the au- 
thor has involuntarily been led to sacrifice to the bad taste of the 
public, which absurdly refuses the right of being read to one who 
has not read every thing. To those who blame the exaggeration 
of his style and the bitterness of his recriminations with regard to 
official science, the author answers, that much indulgence is due to 
