 | Samuel Butler - 2005 - 325 pages
...irresistible, that the second egg remembers the course pursued by the eggs from which it has sprang, and of whose present identity it is unquestionably...development in its own way; the egg's way may seem a very roaadabout manner of doing things ; but it is its way, and it is one of which man, upon the whole,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 2004 - 378 pages
...unconscious recollection of what all, and more especially its nearer, ancestral ova did under similar circumstances, there would seem to be little doubt...seem a very roundabout manner of doing things; but it is its way, and it is one of which man, upon the whole, has no great reason to complain. Why the fowl... | |
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It has, I believe, been often remarked, that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. 
