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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
satellites to Jupiter, wMcli is tlie largest planet of tlie solar sys- 
tem, while He has intrusted seven to Saturn, eight to Herschel, 
five to the Earth ? Evidently some error has slipped into His ac- 
counts, and the good God is deceived. God is not mistaken at 
all, replies analogy. The passion of familism modulates by four; 
the planet Jupiter is cardinal of familism; thus it has been proved 
above by the nature of the gifts which it has made to our Earth, 
(cow and calville apple), then Jupiter is obliged to content him- 
self with four satellites. ... It is, indeed, necessary that the. plan- 
ets which represent passions more elevated than familism,^ should 
* The ties of Family or blood lineage are necessitated, and now to a very 
considerable extent, arbitrary, merely moral, foreign to onr personal choice, 
and imposing shackles on the liberty of the soul, from which the greater 
number, especially of women, can never so far emancipate themselves as 
to show what their true characters are ; remaining stuck together like fee- 
ble water insects emerging from a mass of eggs, which cannot succeed in 
extricating their wings from the slime that binds them together where a 
gust of wind has upset them. The ties of Friendship, of Love, of Ambition 
are, comparatively speaking, free, since they are entered into and dis- 
solved without subordination to other forces than those of spiritual affinity 
and personal interest, while the ties of Family exist irrespective of both 
these forces, and frequently control our conduct in opposition to them, 
compelling us to live with, and to serve or be served by those whom we 
dislike, despisa, and whose characters no sympathy interprets to us, en- 
veloped in beautiful illusions, as in the case of free love. Thence continual 
jars, and the disgusting hell of so many civilized households, whose mem- 
bers exert upon each other an inverse magnetism, like that of the torpedo, 
occasioning spiritual paralysis, and the most unpleasant shocks. 
Souls are distributed to families often, if not as the general rule, like 
the notes of music in the chromatic scale, which make musical combina- 
tions only on condition of their separation. 
Thus the high accords of the Family are developed only through the in- 
tervention of those of Friendship, Love, and Ambition. 
If, for instance, a sister whose character occupies to your own a situa- 
tion in the scale analogous to that of the notes do re in music, ^. e., dis- 
cordant or antipathetic, should be in mutual love relations with a friend 
whose character forms with yours an accord analogous to the third with 
the fifth of music, new and very agreeable developments will ensue thence 
between yourself and your sister, circumstances permitting. Successful 
ambition developed strong accords of familism among the Buonaparte 
family, etc.— T r. 
