MAN IN HIS CHRYSALID. 
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An ingenious philosopher has remarked that if the human embryo, 
while imprisoned in the maternal bosom, might reason, it would say:— 
“I see myself endowed with organs of which here I can make no use, 
—limbs which do not move, a stomach, and teeth which do not eat. 
Patience ! these organs convince me that nature calls me elsewhere; a 
time will come when I shall have another residence, a life in which all 
these implements will find employment. They are standing still, they 
are waiting. I am but the chrysalis of a man !” 
