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THE ORPHAN: ITS 
WE have told the easiest and pleasantest story to 
relate, the story of the privileged creature for whom 
its mother has duly provided, and who is nourished 
and clothed by her efforts. But many—in truth, the 
greatest number—enter life destitute and necessitous. 
They fall naked into the great world. 
Poverty the audacious, necessity the ingenious, the 
severe internal travail of hunger and desire, stimulate 
and develop the energetic organs which come to their 
assistance, 
What organs? The great Swammerdam, the martyr 
of patience, was the first to distinguish them. With 
a piercing eye, examining the newly-hatched egg,— 
that dubious foundation !—he seized the opening linea- 
ments of life, and marked in them the profound and de- 
cisive characters which make the mystery of the insect. 
He saw the little creature, with its gelatinous body, push forward 
* La Frileusc,—literally, ‘The chilly one.” 
