flesh; and He did it in order that Man, too much oppressed by his own impotence, might spread his feeble pinions and soar into the skies. It is a revelation of the God who Bears. As the eagle beareth them on her wings so the Lord. The eaglets spread their baby pinions at last—and fall into the abyss! But, with a rush and a swoop, the mother-bird plunges into the depth beneath them, and, catching them on her wings, bears them back to the nest on the shelf. So the Lord, says Moses. Like the eagle,