divine code; you would find there nothing but the art of leading all men to happiness by the ways of love and religion. But if you are inclined to know this happiness so different from that of civilization, this happiness which, I repeat, will extend to old age as to youth, remember that every rose has its thorns, and that I cannot, even in a theory of pleasure and love, expound an entirely new science like attraction without drawing you into calculations sometimes bristling with difficulties.
The mechanism of harmony for eight hundred million men is no small matter, and if thirty centuries of study have been devoted to the science that makes humanity groan in poverty, treachery, oppression and massacre, ought we not devote at least thirty days of study to the new science that will raise these 800 million men to opulence, truth, liberty and universal harmony?
Victims for 3,000 years of these scientific pretensions, let us finally try to guide ourselves by the impulse of common sense, which has indicated to us an index, an approximate guide in passional investigations; this guide will be the rallying to the wishes of love, which is the essentially divine passion, the one that brings us closest to the divinity. That love in the civilized order is a deceptive beacon is cause for distrust not of love but of civilization, which does not conciliate itself with this entirely divine passion. Let us note carefully on this subject that if I designate love as a social oracle, it is with regard to what is possible in future societies and not in this one.
The Material and Passional Compasses.
To this oracle or index, we must add a passional compass, or method of certain direction in the development of the passions. It will again be common sense that indicates it. Provisionally, I inform the reader that instead of one compass, we shall have two, so much has providence feared that man might lack beacons and guides to attain happiness. We shall have as our material compass analogy, among others that of music or speaking harmony, analogous to the fixed mathematical sciences, whose distribution is mathematical, immutable and unitary in all worlds and in all times; it must be identical with passional harmony, in the absence of