. The bird . f-ihJL\l. The wise ignorance, the clear-seeing instinctof our forefathers gave utterance to this oracle: Everything springs from the egg ; it is the worldscradle. Even our original, but especially the diversityof our destiny, is due to the mother. She acts and sheforesees, she loves with a stronger or a weaker love,she is more or less the mother. The more she is so,the higher mounts her offspring; each degTce inexistence depends on the degi-ee of her love. Aiat can the mother effect in the mobile existenceof the fish ? Nothing, but trust her birth to the in the insect w


. The bird . f-ihJL\l. The wise ignorance, the clear-seeing instinctof our forefathers gave utterance to this oracle: Everything springs from the egg ; it is the worldscradle. Even our original, but especially the diversityof our destiny, is due to the mother. She acts and sheforesees, she loves with a stronger or a weaker love,she is more or less the mother. The more she is so,the higher mounts her offspring; each degTce inexistence depends on the degi-ee of her love. Aiat can the mother effect in the mobile existenceof the fish ? Nothing, but trust her birth to the in the insect world, where she generally dies assoon as she has produced the egg? To obtain for itbefore dying a secure asylum, where it may come to light, and live. In the case of the superior animal, the quadruped, where the 64 THE EGG. warm blood should surely stir up love, where the mothers womb isso long the rest and home of her young, the cares of maternity arealso of minor import. The offspring is born fully formed, clothedi


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