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two colors, orange and azure. Azure is the color of love, [the 
color which divine love imparts to the all-enfolding firmament 
at the confines where the solar rays enter the earth’s atmos- 
phere.] — Tr. Orange is the color of enthusiasm and of the com- 
posite [synthetic or centripetal passion.] Love is the generative 
passion of enthusiasm ; perfect accord then between the two rays. 
But the mi is also the note of love, the blue note ; the la is 
the note of enthusiasm, the orange note . . . perfect accord 
then of the la with the Why, now, of the two sensible notes, 
fa and si, does the fa always aspire to descend, and the si to as- 
cend? The si aspires to mount, aspires to the superior ut, be- 
cause the note si is the sensible major, and in the major mode the 
superior attracts the inferior. The note fa aspires to descend to- 
ward mi, because in the minor mode, it is the inferior who fasci- 
nates the superior, I know not whether the reader has perceived 
that the natural theory of musical notation has been inadvertently 
revealed to him. 
Since each note of the musical gamut has its color, it follows 
that it ought to be expressed on the paper neither with ciphers as 
Rousseau wishes, nor with crockets as Aretin wants it, but that it 
should be written with colors. With this notation the apprentice- 
ship to read music, which now requires ten years, might be gained 
in five or six lessons of one hour each."^ 
We need not be astronomers in order to know what planets are 
to be discovered, and their names, and the places they occupy in 
the sky, and the plants and beasts which they have given to the 
day. And who else, if you please, than analogists, would have 
had the courage to reclaim for our globe its legitimate right to an 
escort of five satellites, and to prove that it was a temporary mis- 
fortune that now deprives it of the exercise of four fifths of its 
rights ! For the brevity of our lives, and the fearful sum of 
the diseases that desolate their course, and the epidemics, and the 
volcanoes, and the earthquakes, which tear the bowels of our un- 
fortunate mother, and cause her to vomit fire.; all these painful 
phenomena attest too cruelly that her health is not perfect. I 
would not wish to deprive M. Leverrier, who is a great calcu- 
* See second volume of Comparative Psychology. 
