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lations already made elsewhere carry to eight hundred and ten for 
the major gamut, and the same number for the minor, the ci- 
pher of the necessary characterial combinations, to assure the 
regular movement of an alveolar society or commune. The dental 
gamut of man, which offers only twenty-eight pieces in the child, 
has thirty-two in the adult. These teeth are disposed in the minor 
order by even groups of eight and four with the os hyoides or pivot. 
The pectoral gamut counts twenty-eight pieces, called true ribs 
and false or floating ribs, but distributed by seven and five, ac- 
cording to the major mode, and connecting themselves upon the 
pivot of the sternum. (Besides which we have the counter-pivot 
or dorsal spine, and the clavicles and scapulae, transitional). In 
the fingers and the vertebrae, wherever double and symmetrical 
organs exist, we meet the number thirty-two, pivotal number of 
compound harmony for the globes of the solar system. 
We should look for thirty-two human races, for thirty -two 
choirs in the phalanx or integral society, thirty-two cards of the 
game of piquet and soldiers in the game of chess. The game of 
piquet and the game of chess, which pivot on the number thirty- 
two, are certainly two of the most admirable inventions of the hu- 
man mind, and which incontestahly demonstrate by the recreation 
which they procure to man, that no more harmonic combination is 
possible to him than in the number thirty-two. 
The game of dominoes, which has only twenty-eight pieces, is to 
the game of piquet, as the dental gamut of the child, which has but 
twenty-eight teeth, is to that of the adult which has thirty-two. 
The game of draughts, which has forty pieces — that is eight 
more than the game of chess — has still less than a thousandth part 
of the combinations and resources of the latter — a new proof al- 
ready given besides by the musical gamut, that the number thirty- 
two is the true term of compound harmony, the true cipher for 
the letters of the universal alphabet of the solar system. 
This rapid exposition of the Passional Series terminated, we must 
begin to relate the misfortunes of the Earth, and to tell the causes 
of abortion in the last creation, and the omissions which dishonor 
the gamuts of her different kingdoms. If it is true that the beast 
has been created to love man and to serve him, history should 
