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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
the little rogues to restrain their ardor for instruction. Quantum 
mutatus ah illo I ... I only ask the ministry of public educa- 
tion for six years, in order to reform the human understanding. 
The learned shrug their shoulders to hear me speak thus, and 
think that I am joking. I am perfectly in earnest ; if the learned 
knew that all the sciences are the same, and that thirty-two can 
be learned at once without crowding each other, they would un- 
derstand me seriously. 
All the sciences at once? ... Yes, just so; and passional in- 
struction, when it commences, will produce miracles like the lyre 
of Amphion. Miracles ! for analogy has not only the privilege of 
giving to beings the most inanimate (old style), a body, a spirit, a 
human countenance and human passions ; analogy has the privi- 
lege of not being able to teach one science without teaching them 
all, the privilege of causing fifty discoveries to spring from every 
demonstration, fifty unsought solutions of problems which come to 
you of themselves, that fly up as it were from between your feet- 
like the pheasants in a royal preserve, and sparkle before your eyes 
like the figures in a kaleidescope, and end by climbing upon each 
other, like the grades of a giant stairway, ascending from man to 
God. Yes, all the sciences at once, and what sciences ! Learned 
civilizees have attained, it is true, to make of arithmetic, science of 
numbers ; and of geometry, science of sizes ; a double nightmare 
for the childhood of both sexes, and even for adults. But if I told 
you that I have seen professors of passional arithmetic hold sus- 
pended on their lips, by the charm of their words, the most adora- 
ble auditrices ! Poor children ! martyrs of civilization, to whom, 
has never been given the least idea of the interesting things there 
are to be told about the number 2, number of union, of symmetry, 
of sympathy, germ of love ; or on the number 3, sacred number, 
considered as such by all the ancient religions and cosmogonies — 
number of the attributes of God, and of the three natural princi- 
ples, and of the three distributives ; the number 3, the number of 
the measure (triangle),, the number of the law and of justice (bal- 
ance), the number of agronomy, of property, of progress. But 
there are ten interesting books to be written on the virtues of the 
number 3. Are you curious to have the explanation of all myste- 
