

V The wise ignorance, the clear-seeing instinct 

 of our forefathers gave utterance to this oracle : 

 " Eveiy thing springs from the egg ; it is the world's 

 ciadle " 



Even our original, but especially the diversity 



of our destiny, is due to the mother. She acts and she 



(f.S'iy ^"^ J foiesees, she loves with a stronger or a weaker love, 



h^ she is more or less the mother. The more she is so, 



the higher mounts her offspring ; each degTee in 



•^"'x^ existence depends on the degree of her love. 



'it 



WHiat can the mother effect in the mobile existence 



'w^ t ^^ ^^® ^^^^ ^ Nothing, but trust her birth to the ocean. 



^P What in the insect world, where she generally dies as 



i" soon as she has produced the egg ? To obtain for it 



before dying a secure asylum, where it may come to light, and 



live. 



In the case of the superior animal, the quadruped, where the 



