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notion with which the former is particularly accordant. It is 

 an idea entertained by some, that within the material cover 

 which constitutes our natural frame there exists a spiritual 

 body, endowed with spiritual organs. This (in their opinion) 

 constitutes the man, this, the inward form in constant course 

 of being moulded into beauty or deformity by moral discipline 

 and culture, this, the building to which the corporeal frame 

 is but a scaffold, thrown down after performance of its pur- 

 pose, in a spiritual erection, or (returning to our insect 

 analogy) tJiis, the winged Imago, which, on entrance to its 

 highest stage of being, casts off for ever its material encase- 

 ment, as an emancipated butterfly the confining shell which 

 served once as its chrysalidan cover. 



Oufi'r mature^ ! 



