







The wise ignorance, the clear-seeing instinct 

 of our forefathers gave utterance to this oracle : 

 " Everything springs from the egg ; it is the world's 

 cradle." 



Even our original, but especially the diversity 

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

 foresees, 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 in 

 existence depends on the degi-ee of her love. 



A\niat can the mother effect in the mobile existence 

 of the fish ? Nothing, but trust her birth to the ocean. 

 What in the insect world, where she generally dies as 

 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 



