Title: The bird
Identifier: birdthe00mich (find matches)
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Michelet, Jules, 1798-1874; Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London ; New York : T. Nelson
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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V The wise ignorance, the clear-seeing instinct of our forefathers gave utterance to this oracle: " Eveiything springs from the egg ; it is the world's ciadle " Even our original, but especially the diversity of our destiny, is due to the mother. She acts and she (f.S'iy ^"^ J foiesees, she loves with a stronger or a weaker love, h^ she is more or less the mother. The more she is so, the higher mounts her offspring; each degTee in •^"'x^ existence depends on the degree of her love. 'it WHiat can the mother effect in the mobile existence 'w^ t ^^ ^^® ^^^^ ^ Nothing, but trust her birth to the ocean. ^P What in the insect world, where she generally dies as i" 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

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