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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY, 
-N’ot content with the success of this perfidy, Herschel has pushed 
irony even to cruelty ; she was the natural reservoir of blue flow- 
ers in her quality of cardinal hypernainor ; she has abused her po- 
sition to refuse the perfume of love to the flowers of this color 
which she was obliged to give the Earth ; and in exchange she 
has inoculated them with the perfume of pharmacy and with moral 
properties. ^ ^ ^ [See “Vegetable Portraits of Character,’^ 
page 32.] 
Venus, the ambigu of the Earth, perfumes with lilac, a mixed 
aroma between that of love and that of friendship, as the lilac col- 
or is mixed between the violet and rose. The ambigus always per- 
fume with mixed aromas. 
The lilac, a charming bush, rich in flowers, poor in fruits, first 
ornament of the season of love, symbolizes bi-sexual friendship, a 
friendship excessively passionate, but which would willingly pass 
from the major to the minor sphere. The lilac is one of the most 
adorable things in the world, like the affection which it expresses : 
the enthusiastic friendship of the little Hordes for the Corporation 
of Vestals. 
But the most delicious creation of Hebe, the first moon of Her- 
schel ; those of Venus, and those of the Earth, great artists as they 
are, must cede the step for grace of form, delicacy, and suavity of 
aromas to the creations of the favorite moon of the vortex, of the 
a class of qualities deficient in the other, and operating as their comple- 
ment in the more integral organism of the child. 
Love is thus the accord of contrasted temperaments, and its harmonies 
accordingly are of the most brilliant and unexpected character. But this 
is not congeniality ; it is far from that fraternal harmony of souls whose 
blending tastes, attractions, and pursuits symmetrically adjust them to 
each other’s companionship in the practical details of daily industry and 
amusement, either in the attractive industry of Harmony, or in the repug- 
nant duties of civilization or barbarism. 
It is the same voice that calls man and woman to the union for procrea- 
tion, that forbids to them, above all others, those domestic ties and alli- 
ances which constitute our isolated household ; and it is the forced union 
of those opposite elements, the amative accord of contrast, and the domes- 
tic alliance which reposes on fraternal accords of a nature entirely differ- 
ent, which produces the mystery and the mischief of marriage, and so cru- 
elly disappoints the most glowing anticipations. — T r. 
