Has modern science swept aside the ancient poetry? [110] That it is not so, is shown by Réaumur's discoveries, [111]
Which show us the marvellous changes the insect undergoes, [112]
And how in each stage of growth the next is prefigured, [113]
However numerous or great the changes, the individuality is preserved, [114]
A future life is provided for, as in the case of the human embryo, [115]
CHAPTER VII.—THE PHŒNIX.
Out of gloom and obscurity emerges light, [119]
The metamorphosis takes place, but the insect is not at a loss, [120]
Nature furnishes each species with all its needs for the new life, [121]