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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
the right of a seat at the banquet of life belonged only to the son 
of the rich, as well as the right of love and the right of paternity. 
Thus false morality, by degrading passion, sought to deprive God 
of His rank as chief of the universal movement. Must we tolerate 
such infractions of the Supreme order ? I think not. 
O join yourselves with me, holy and charitable souls, whom the 
Spirit of God kindles; all you first, noble and generous daughters 
of Eve, to whom God granted beauty and the right to seduce, to 
retain the heart of man in the power of passion 1 Join with me in 
dealing justice to the odious doctrine of the unworthiness of pas- 
sion, on which impostors and tyrants have erected for six thousand 
years, their systems of torture, and let us quickly proceed to the 
vindication of Love ; of Love, whose cause is yours as well as that 
of God ; is the cause of happiness and of human liberty. The 
restoration of passion is the beginning of wisdom, is the first stage 
of the road to harmony. Love is the column of fire which must 
guide toward the promised land that poor humanity, now de- 
ceived, thirsty, and wandering in the desert of the purgatorial 
societies. Rise with me, daughters of Eve, with silken tresses, 
blonde or black ; born priestesses of the law of Love ; rise, to 
say with your voice so sweet to the heart of man, to say with the 
flowers, with the birds, and the stars : God is good. 
Ah, doubtless, God is good, whatever say His ministers ; and if 
He is good. He loves not that carnage and blood toward which He 
inspires us with horror; and those wdm sing Te Deums to thank 
Him for having favored their armies, calumniate and insult Him. 
He is our Father; then He is bound to wish our happiness, since 
it is by His very law that fathers work for the welfare of their 
children. He is just; consequently, every desire that He gives us 
is a promise which He 'inalces to us. 
For example, had He not willed that \ve should be immortal, 
He would not have given us the desire of being so ; He would 
have given us attraction for the idea of annihilation. One would 
have cost Him no more than the other. The best proof of our 
immortality is the necessity we are under to believe so. One of 
these two things is true — either that we are immortal as we de- 
sire to be, or that otherwise God, who has placed this desire in 
