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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
The Earth repeats incessantly,” says lie, the two notes fa 
and mi, because these two notes are initial syllables of the two 
words faim et muere, famem et mi*seriam.” 
Reason is the only instrument infallible in man, and it is conse- 
quently only the study of the character of beings that can reveal 
to him their planetary analogies. Departing from this point, let 
us study the character of the first animal that comes along in or- 
der to class it in its series. Do we wish to know, for example, the 
aromal title of the horse ? Let us examine the manners of the 
horse. 
I observe that the horse is the only animal that keeps his geo- 
logical tree with care — proof of aristocratic pride, pride of blood. 
I observe that the horse is impassioned for combats, tournaments, 
the chase, pomp, dress — that in the wild state he obeys chiefs 
chosen for their valor. I divine from these salient traits of char- 
acter the emblem of the gentleman, the emblem of the ambitious 
man, thirsting for glory and honor, and 1 class it by authority 
among the productions of the planet Saturn. It will remain after- 
ward to be judged by comparison, what will be its place in the se- 
ries of the ambitious. 
Now the character in the example chosen is so strongly empha- 
sized that every one will exclaim with me, that the horse is the 
cardinal emblem of ambition, consequently the pivotal creature of 
Saturn. They will have spoken the truth ; the horse emanates 
from the purest aromas of the cardinal planet of ambition, from 
that proud globe who marches, accompanied by a cortege of sevm 
satellites, and takes her attitude in the sky like a portrait of Van- 
dyke ; of Saturn, whose martial character might be surmised by 
her proud air alone with the ambitious color of the double scarf, 
with which she likes to gird her waist. 
All is flaming, lustrous, and gorgeous to the eye in this star, 
which cherishes display like the blooded horse. 
The tulip is the cardinal emblem of honor — the lily, emblem of 
truth. Saturn has chosen the tulip and lily for her typical aromas. 
The number 7 is the archetype of hierarchy (number of the spir- 
itual passions, 4 atfectives, and 3 distributives). Nearly all the 
plants in the Linnsean order heptandria (flowers with seven sta- 
