ALLEGORICAL STAMP. The broad radiant circle, while it images the disk of the Sun, symbolizes his universal providence, ubiquity, and eternity, relative to our planetary system of which He is the pivot or central and generative principle. The circle is also the geometrical type of friendship, all the parts of its periphery being equidistant from the centre, as in the group of friends or persons acting exclusively in the tone of friendship,—there are no distinctions of grade, but equality reigns in all their distributions of use and of enjoyment, the ultimates of life, which coincide with the periphery of the circle. Within the circle is placed the triangle, symbol of the second attribute of Deity, Distributive Justice. It is formed by doubling the square, mechanical measure of justice and truth, and figures the Trinity, or three distributive passional principles of nature and humanity, whence the harmonies of the universe and of societies proceed. This Triangle incloses the Cross, wreathed with a fruit-bearing grape vine. The Cross, inscribed with the initials of Jesus, symbolizes the crucifixion of private interests in devotion to the principles of collective charity and unity, and the fate that individual truth and goodness invokes upon its head, when it appears in the midst of false and evil societies; which continues the same since the time of Christ till now. The crucifixion of the passions is the general lot of the human race, and especially of its laboring masses, and its honest reformers, during the incoherent periods or duration of the upsidedown world, based on egotism and selfishness, on the isolated household, and smallest possible social combination. But, as in consequence of the coming of Christ to society, as he came once to the Jews of old; as the result of the scientific embodiment of those principles of action of which his life afforded so luminous an example; the passion of Friendship and the fruits of friendly communion, of which the grape and its wine are the chief types, will take the place of egotism and rule in the harmonized world; so by wreathing the cross with the grape vine, I express the fruit or ultimate and harmonic purpose and result of the crucifixion, the justification of human nature, and the triumph of happiness. NOTE TO PAGE 304. In treating of the epoch of conception, I have not pretended to determine the exact number of days following menstruation, to which conception, or the impregnation of the ovum, is restricted; the real or supposed personal experiences confided to me, not having sustained the exclusive and positive statement which I am now about to quote. Dr. F. A. Pouchet, Professor of Zoology at Rouen, in a "theory of spontaneous ovulation and of fecundation," which has obtained the prize of experimental physiology from the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1845, pretends to have incontrovertibly ascertained that the period in which woman is apt for conception is limited to the 12 days after each menstruation. He asserts that the ovule is never impregnated until it has broken its envelope the graafian vesicle, and escaped from the ovary, and he disputes the fact of ovarian pregnancies. The sanguineous flux absent in other animals and not invariable in women, is no essential part of the periodical maturation and expulsion of ova, but merely indicates the orgasm attending their maturation and preceding their escape. Essential menstruation or the escape of the ovule from the ovary is recognized by periodical orgasm, and the expulsion of the decidua about the 10th and within the 12th day after it. The ovule, though liable to escape from its vesicle immediately after apparent menstruation, may not escape until the 4th day afterwards; it then occupies from 2 to 6 days in descending the fallopian tubes, and may be retained in utero from 2 to 6 days longer by the decidua, or mucous exsudation from the internal surface of the womb, before its final expulsion per vaginam, in connection with the decidua, when it has not been fecundated by the zoosperm. This expulsion, though ordinarily occurring between the 10th and 12th day from the cessation of apparent menstruation, may, it appears from the addition of the longest terms precited, be possibly delayed until the 16th. All the movements of the ovule are subject to be hastened by the general excitement of the organs in coitu. 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