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Copper leads me to speak of gold, the king of metals, the most 
unoxidizable, the most resplendent and most highly coloring of all. 
The intelligent reader divines that this royal or pivotal metal can 
come only from the aromas of the San, general focus of the aro- 
mas of the system, and distributing to the other stars, as gold to 
the other metals, light and color. The sacred character of irradia- 
tion, of connection, of unityism, and of authority, will appear in all 
the creations of the Star King. 
It will be the elephant among the quadrupeds ; the peacock 
among birds ; the corn-plant, the sugar-cane, the potato, the vine, 
among plants ; gold, the diamond, in the mineral kingdom. The 
vine, whose perfumed juice, milk of the aged, disposes man to ex- 
pansion and to fraternity ; the vine, a plant so eminently French — 
the vine is the purest production of the loves of the Earth and 
the Sun. 
The first of all the wines in the world, and that which most im- 
proves by age, the luscious, oily wines of Haut Brion, Laffitte, and 
Chateau-Margot, yields the perfume of the violet. 
The peaceful and fruitful cow — the cow, nursing mother of man, 
will proceed from the massy and powerful Jupiter, cardinal of 
Familism, as well as the Calville apple, emblem of providence, and 
also the gold-yellow jonquil, perfumed emblem of maternal tender- 
ness. The creations of the Cardinal of Familism will shine more 
by their useful than by their poetic side. Familism is not the most 
elevated in title of the cardinal passions ; on the contrary, since it 
is a passion fixed and not free. We shall easily perceive the in- 
ferior title of Jupiter’s essays, by the character of the casts of 
his ambigue, the dread planet Mars, who has worked too much 
in the preparation of the earth’s zoological furniture. The earth 
owes to Mars an incalculable number of odious, venomous, hide- 
ous, and repulsive types. I shall cite among them the toad, my 
own bugbear, emblem of the beggar, displaying his sores and pus- 
tules to the eyes of passers-by or carrying on his back strings of 
dirty and ragged children. 
The beauty, the wealth, and also the number of the notes in the 
scale of the Cardinal of Love, promised the Earth numberless se- 
ries of charming types, perfumed, delicate, enrapturing. Cruel 
