LIFE AND HER CHILDREN. 13 
So life sends her children forth, and it remains 
for us to learn something of their history. If we 
could but know it all, and the thousands of different 
ways in which the beings around us struggle and 
live, we should be overwhelmed with wonder. Even 
as it is we may perhaps hope to gain such a glimpse 
of the labours of this great multitude as may lead us 
to wish to fight our own battle bravely, and to work, 
and strive, and bear patiently, if only that we may 
be worthy to stand at the head of the vast family of 
Life's children. 
