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— have, since the time of the Greek poets, 

 been applied to typify the human being — its 

 terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate 

 celestial destination ; and it seems more ex- 

 traordinary that a sordid and crawling worm 

 should become a beautiful and active fly — 

 that an inhabitant of the dark and foetid 

 dunghill should in an instant entirely change 

 its form, rise into the blue air, and enjoy the 

 sunbeams, — than that a being, whose pursuits 

 here have been after an undying name, and 

 whose purest happiness has been derived 

 from the acquisition of intellectual power 

 and finite knowledge, should rise hereafter 

 into a state of being, where immortality is no 

 longer a name, and ascend to the source of 

 Unbounded Power and Infinite Wisdom. 



Phys. — I have been listening, Halieus, to 

 your account of water-flies with attention, 

 and I only regret, that your details were not 

 more copious; let me now call your attention 

 to that Michaelmas daisy. A few minutes 

 ago, before the sun sunk behind the hill, its 

 flowers were covered with varieties of bees, 

 and some wasps, all busy in feeding on its 



