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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
hands of Hercules. Caprice has no laws. The general law of 
movement will have the satellites pass from west to east, says 
Love ; very well, now I will profit by this circumstance to im- 
press upon my subjects a diametrically opposite movement. Soon 
done as said ; wherefore the satellites of Herschel appear to be 
out of the general law. Unfortunately, the savans, who are nearly 
all out of the special law of Love, can no longer understand argu- 
ments of this sort. 
Shall I tell you, although I do not profess the science of mu- 
sic, why the French nation is now so uneasy, and desires some- 
thing else than it has ? It is because its Tonic does not accord 
with its Dominant. Its true Dominant is honor, and its present 
Tonic is lucre, ignoble stockjobbing. 
As it plunges amid the stars, so analogy dives into the past, the 
present, and the future. It is as easy for it to read in the history 
of ages past, as in that of future ages ; for it has natural books, 
where all that is, all that was, and all that is to be, is written. The 
fragrant revelations of the reseda and of the sweet pea have in- 
formed it of the future organization of the five choirs of infancy, 
and have taught it the devotion and generosity of the little Hordes. 
It knows by an attentive analysis of the model government of the 
bees, what preparatory institutions the Harmonian order requires. 
For the bees, which have so well realized among them the theory 
of liberty, equality, and attractive labor, the bees, have begun by 
pitilessly suppressing the unproductives (drones). Afterward they 
have not suppressed capital (honey), not such fools ; they have 
socialized it, in order to distribute it afterward to each individual, 
in proportion to his necessities, in conformity with the doctrine of 
Christ, formalized by His apostles. Finally, they have told the last 
word of God upon the governmental form, by adopting the elective 
feminine monarchy. It is a great glory for the bees to have been 
chosen by the Creator to indicate to men the solution of two ques- 
tions so important, as those of the repartition of profits and the 
form of government; and men, in my opinion, cannot show them- 
selves too grateful to the bees, for this double benefit. What sur- 
prises and afflicts me is, that after the solemn decision of the bees, 
there should be still to-day a division between the two principal 
