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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
Each of the graduated modulations of the series will receive its 
baptismal name from the aromal title of the satellites or of the 
ambigu of its cardinal. The passional dominant of each group, 
of each individual, will indicate in one word its planetary origin, 
and will tell at the same time, as an infallible touchstone, or rather 
as a diapason of the passional gamut, the omissions of existing 
series, and the functions of future creations. 
The principle of the universal classification of the sciences has 
been asked ; behold it, for I repeat, all the sciences are the same, 
and beasts, minerals, and flowers are but different casts pene- 
trated by the creative power of the planets, to represent human 
passion. The planets obeying in the fabrication of their types, 
the law of the series, it follows fatally that the cast of all classifi- 
cations is the same for all the kingdoms of nature. Scale of char- 
acters, scale of colors, scale of sounds, scale of beasts, of flowers, 
all are modeled upon the passional hierarchy. It is henceforth 
for characterial affinity, for analogy, to place each family in its 
rank, and to assign to it its number of order. The squares on the 
universal chess-board remain the same, there is nothing to be 
changed but the names of the pieces occupying them. 
Easy, however, as may be a universal classification of the sci- 
ences, it is always a universal classification, it is always a com- 
plete exposition of the law of the series in all the kingdoms of the 
Creation, that is to say, the last word of human science, and al- 
most the last word of God ! I have not the last word of God, 
and I am not therefore mortified ; but I ingenuously confess that 
I would not restrict myself to a double folio volume of one thou- 
sand pages, that I should have to write upon a subject as large as 
the world. 
This book is a treatise on the spirit of the beasts of France, and 
not a complete treatise on passional nomenclature. There are 
limits, alas ! fixed by universal poverty and the price of the vol- 
ume. I must, then, confine myself within these fatal limits. Let 
planet Saturn Cardinal of ambition. The different sub-species and vari- 
eties of this series will be related to the various moons of Saturn, with 
whose characters the sciences of Harmony, when these matters become of 
practical interest, will acquaint us. 
