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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
vitiated atmosphere, perhaps, intercepts the five semicolors anal- 
ogous to the five musical semitones ; neither have we discerned in 
colors the minor scale. 
A single observation suffices to show the imperfection of the 
sense of sight in man. He cannot fix his eye on the Sun. 
The owl which light offends, like other prowlers of the night, 
has a compensation in its co-nocturnal sight for the absence of a 
co-solar sight. Ovid is right in affirming that God gives to man 
the countenance sublime and adapts him to look up to the heav- 
ens. But this definition applies to the normal man, the man of 
harmony, and not to the man of civilization, who cannot look the 
Sun in the face. The animals who know this defect in their mas- 
ter, like to joke him about it. A cock that perceives you attend- 
ing to him never fails to turn his head on one side in order to dart 
his glance at the Sun, as if to say to you in his ironical language. 
King of the Earth, try to do that. 
The gamut of savors and of odors, and the gamut of the pivo- 
tal sense, touch, are faintly sketched in man, [perhaps merely from 
his neglect to cultivate and refine their sensations, these 'branches 
having' been placed under a ban by ascetic religion and morality 
during the general poverty of incoherent societies.] 
The faculty of perceiving the cardinal or pivotal aromas is, be- 
sides, proportional to the passional title of species ; thus it is prob- 
able that we surpass in faculties of compound visual perception 
all the animals of the earth, and that man, by reason of his. con- 
substantiality with God, is the only being here below who per- 
ceives the white, color of Unityism. 
The dog (type of friendship), then, may see the hare a violet, 
and the lark would see the Sun yellow. Castagno, my brach- 
bound, whom I have more than once consulted on this question 
of optics, has always answered me evasively. 
Moreover, all the aspirations of man urge him toward the series 
of the third degree ; the ambition to attain the full harmonic gam- 
ut is displayed in all his manifestations. The first combinations of 
his twelve radical passions engender, first, thirty-two principal types 
of human character or characterial dominants, serving to discrim- 
inate individuals, and to class them in groups and series. Calcu- 
