. The bird. Birds. ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES. 325 that where the bird is least exposed to slaughter. The land of William Tell knew how to place before her children a juster and more exalted object when they liberated their country. ****** France is not cruel. Why, then, this love of murder, this exter- mination of tlie animal world ? It is the rnvpatient people, the young people, the childish people, in a rude and restless childhood. If they cannot be doing in creating, they will be doing by destroying. But what they most fatally injure is—themselves! A violent education, stormily impassioned in love
. The bird. Birds. ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES. 325 that where the bird is least exposed to slaughter. The land of William Tell knew how to place before her children a juster and more exalted object when they liberated their country. ****** France is not cruel. Why, then, this love of murder, this exter- mination of tlie animal world ? It is the rnvpatient people, the young people, the childish people, in a rude and restless childhood. If they cannot be doing in creating, they will be doing by destroying. But what they most fatally injure is—themselves! A violent education, stormily impassioned in love or severit}^, criLshes in the child, withers, chokes up the firet moral flower of natural sensitiveness, all that was purest of the maternal milk, the germ of universal love which rarely blooms again. Among too many cliildren we are saddened by their almost incred- ible sterility. A few recover from it in the long circle of life, when they have become experienced and enlightened men. But the first freshness of the heart? It shall return no more.* How is it that this nation, otherwise born under such felicitous circumstances, is, with rare and local exceptions, accursed with so singular an incapacity for harmony ? It has its own peculiar songs, its charming little melodies of vivacity and mirth. But it needs a prolonged effort, a special education, to attain to Page 158. Flattening of the brain.—The weight of the brain, compared with that of the body, is, in the Ostrich, in the ratio of 1 to 1200 Goose, 1 to 360 Duck, 1 to 257 Eagle 1 to 160 * Compare Byron, in " Don ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Michelet, Jules, 1798-1874; Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904. London ; New York : T. Nelson
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