deur and sublimity even in an ovarian egg scarcely percept- 

 ible to the naked eye. Hear him on microscopic exami- 

 nation of the formation of an ovarian egg : " The process," 

 he says, " is very difficult to follow, and in watching 

 it one is reminded of what astronomers tell us of distant 

 bodies in space, which, when observed with the highest 

 magnifying power, appear only like irregular clouds of 

 dust, while others are circumscribed in definite areas, and 

 seem more like nearer celestial bodies with which we are 

 familiar We deal, as it were, with the nebular world 

 of animal structures. The mysteries of cell formation are 

 indeed as difficult to trace as the nebulae of the astronomer." 

 And again in his "Method of study of Natural History " 

 he says. "One can hardly conceive the beauty of the egg 

 as seen through the microscope at this period of its 

 growth, (the first change) when the yolk is divided, with 

 the dark granules on one side : while the other side, 

 where the trasparent halo of the vesicle is seen, is brill- 

 iant with light. With the growth of the egg these gran- 

 ules enlarge, become more distinct, and under the micros- 

 cope some of them appear to be hollow. They are not 

 round in form, but rather irregular, and under the effect 

 of light they are exceedingly brilliant. Presently, in- 

 stead of being scattered equally over the space they occu- 

 py, they form clusters, — constellations, as it were, — and 

 between these clusters are clear spaces produced by the 

 separation of albumen from the oil. At this period of its 

 growth there is a wonderful resemblance between the ap- 

 pearance of the egg, as seen under the microscope and the 

 firmament with the celestial bodies. The little clusters 

 or constellations are unequally divided. Here and there 

 they are two and two like double stars, or sometimes in 

 threes or fives, or in sevens, recalling the Pleiades ; and 

 the clear albumen tracks between are like the empty 

 spaces separating the stars." 



The Pleiades in an ovarian turtle egg, not larger than 

 a pin's head ! There are people who can 



Gaze upon those isles of light 

 So wildly, spiritually bright, 



