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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
longs to man. God has never been jealous of man’s glory ; on the 
contrary, it is He that has placed in man the desire of becoming 
rich and illustrious by creating. Man has the passion to create 
like the planet, and the happiness he experiences in creating is pro- 
portional to the importance of his work. Man is more than an in- 
tellect served by organs, for this too celebrated definition of M. 
De Bonald applies as well to my dog Castagno as to me, and even 
better in many cases, especially in flushing pheasants, where the 
intelligence of Castagno is served by a nose and paws, which my 
organs cannot have the credit of equaling. Yet, without detract- 
ing from Castagno’s intelligence, I may say that his intelligence is 
limited in comparison with mine, seeing that it does not act be- 
yond the sphere of animal life. [It is only in the devotion of his 
affections that he transcends this and shares with me the attributes 
of my spiritual life. — T r.] 
Man, often inferior to the beast in vigor of muscle and subtlety 
of senses, is as much his superior in intelligence ; he is the legiti- 
mate king of the earth, and the beast has been created and sent 
into the world to love and to serve him. ^ 
Man is the product of an abridged creation, interrupted in its 
finest seuson. Man is the last born of a fallen globe — all whose 
kingdoms are marked with the seal of omission and abortion. Man 
is king of a planet, but of a planet in quarantine^ and in great 
measure cut off by its diseases from the harmonious relations of its 
solar system, and man himself is reduced to a minimum of devel- 
opment which has rendered his struggles to attain harmony and 
conquer by intelligence his happier destinies, so long, so painful, 
and hitherto so futile. Enough if the power of our passional lev- 
ers stimulate us to react against present misery, and prepare for us 
a better future. 
The passional series or gamut of man is essentially composed of 
twelve radical notes in double play, major and minor : 
1. The group of cardinal or affective passions, corresponding to 
the motor principle, have their focal oigan in the heart. They 
are four : Friendship, Love, Farnilism, Ambition. 
2. The group of sensuous passions, corresponding with matter, 
and whose number is fixed by that of the five senses. 
