316 THE LIFE OF A BIRD. 



simple external agents, a principle of life at 

 present dormant within both would develop 

 itself, until it had produced in the one case the 

 flying fowl, and in the other the waving tree. 

 This would fill him with surprise ; let the thought 

 then awaken within ourselves that admiring and 

 adoring love, which all creation is calculated to 

 excite toward its great and glorious Author. To 

 the final changes in the life of the bird the next 

 part is intended to conduct the reader. 



