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3. Lastly, the group of distributive passions, corresponding to 
the neuter or regulating principle. The distributive passions to the 
number of three, are charged with the direction of the movement 
of the general gamut, with the regulation of the accords and dis- 
cords of the other passions. 
They bear the following names, derived from their functions : 
Cabalist : the reflective impulse of emulation and- intrigue. 
Composite : corporate enthusiasm, blind ardor, passion for com- 
bined accords. Papillon or alternating : passion for change, sus- 
tainer of charms, and preserver from the ennui that springs from 
uniformity. 
The development of the cardinal passions or affections, tends to 
the social group ; that of the sensuous or material passions, to lux- 
ury ; that of the distributives to the series which distributes the 
harmonies. ^ ^ ^ 
All these passions are fused and resumed in one sole pivotal or 
focal passion, the love of Unity or Harmony-— the religious Senti- 
ment. Thus all the colors of the prism unite to form the white, 
color of Unity ism. ^ ^ 
The musical scale, the gamut of the ear, is complete in man ; it 
has its thirty-two notes, with twelve passional titles — its two gam- 
uts, major and minor, of twelve notes each, supported by their four 
sub-pivotal notes and their notes of transition or ambigues. The 
musical gamut of man is probably in relation of titles and number 
with the planetary gamut, whose formation is still incomplete. We 
readily discover in it the four cardinal notes : 
Ut, friendship ; mi, love ; sol, familism ; si, ambition. 
The three ambigues or distributives re, (cabalist) ; fa, (papillon) ; 
la, (composite) ; the five sensitives or inferior passions, the five 
semitones. We must, however, recognize as a sign of the weakness 
of man’s auditory organ, that it is incapable of seizing the five 
semitones in the first vibration of the gamut. 
Our eye does not discern twelve colors in the solar spectrum, 
but only seven — rays corresponding to the four cardinal passions, 
and (perhaps) to the three distributives, violet, (friendship) ; blue, 
(love) ; yellow, (maternity) ; red, (ambition). 
Indigo, (cabalist) ; green, (papillon) ; orange, (composite). Our 
