THE EGG. Eas 
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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 degree in 
whi existence depends on the degree of her love. 
ere What can the mother effect in the mobile existence 
Y = of the fish? Nothing, but trust her birth to the ocean. 
? What in the insect world, where she generally dies as 
r 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 
