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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: out its pistons, its rods, its wheels, its boiler-tubes, all of
which have to be made good from time to time. The founder and the
smith repair it, supply it, so to speak, with 'plastic food,' the
food that becomes embodied with the whole and forms part of it.
But, though it have just come from the engine-shop, it is still
inert. To acquire the power of movement, it must receive from the
stoker a supply of 'energy-producing food;' in other words, he
lights a few shovelfuls of coal in its inside. This heat will
produce mechanical work.
Even so with the beast. As nothing is made from nothing, the egg
supplies first the materials of the new-born animal; then the
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