THE ELECTRIC FIRE OF LOTE. 
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fractions of the Socialist party on the question of capital. The 
socialists do not understand each other, because they lack the sci- 
ence of universal accord, which is analogy. And the idle classes 
rejoice and the laborious classes are desolated at the schism of the 
socialists, who only need to be stronger in analogy, in order to save 
the world. 
I cannot finish this chapter on the origin of beasts and many 
other things, without proclaiming the dangerous heresies of Lin- 
naeus, who, by his false definition of the natural kingdoms, has so 
sadly contributed to mislead public opinion on the origin of plants 
and animals. 
Linnaeus said: Mineralia vegetalia crescunt et vivunt; 
animalia crescunt vivunt et sentiant : minerals groiOf plants grow 
and live, animals grow, live, and feel — as many capital errors as 
words. 
Neither mineral nor flower are devoid of sensibility. Only, the 
sensibility of these inferior beings is not manifested through the 
same organs as that of man, for the very simple reason that plants 
and minerals are less richly organized for thinking and speaking 
than man. But the brain and the larynx are not indispensable in 
order to feel or to love. For every substance penetrable by elec- 
tricity is susceptible of feeling and loving ; and all bodies are pen- 
etrable by electricity, which plays in nature the part of a universal 
agent of attraction, of life, and of fertility. We know the ingeni- 
ous method used by this imponderable fluid with the blue pennon, 
to compel bodies to attract and to love each other. Electricity 
operates upon all bodies, by giving them a sex ; that is to say, by 
doubling them, so as to give to each of their separated parts a 
strong desire to be rejoined. To love, is properly speaking, to be 
electrified ; it is to feel that one is double, and to experience the 
necessity of joining the other half of one’s being. Man and woman, 
who are two upon the earth, are but one in the other life, that is 
to say, in the aroma] life. Wherefore, the number of women is 
equal to that of men on the surface of all globes. Electiicity 
preaches by example, and the untiring mutual pursuit of the two 
sexes is the cause of all the great crises of nature, comprising the 
reproduction of beings and their development. Typhoons, hurri- 
