Iv. AND REVIVED, 193 
form, it affumes that of a fhapelefs mafs, without 
the veltige of feet or wings: it ceafes to feed ; 
indeed to eat would be impoffible, for the organs 
are wanting: it has no longer loco-motion ;_ and 
we fhould really believe it dead, but for fome in- 
fle&tion and contortion of which the pofterior 
part is fufceptible: Apparent death is ftill more 
fenfible in the nymphs of many worms; no fti- 
mulus can awaken any fymptom of life or fenfa- 
tion. ; 
Thus there are fituations in nature fomewhat 
fimilar to the ftate of dry refurgent animals : and 
thefe fituations may be protracted or abridged at 
pleafure the fame as with refurgent animals. 
That torpid animals may never awaken from 
their lethargy; that the embryo may never ex- 
pand in the egg ; that flies and butterflies may 
never proceed from the nymphs and chryfalids, no- 
thing is requifite but to keep them continually ex- 
pofed to cold. The reverfe will happen on €Xpo- 
fure to heat. Probably there are gradations of con: 
neCtion more immediate and more direét between 
the animals that revive and thofe that do not. 
Life, however feeble and obfcure, is always life : 
between it and death there is a diftance as great 
as between exiftence and hon-entity:; An animal, 
whofe life might be fufpended from an impedi- 
ment to the mutual action of the folids and the 
fluids, would be the link connecting the leaft 
Vou. Il. | N degree 
