160 THE EVOLUTIONIST AT LARGE. 



is sweet to taste, and thyme to smell, and song 

 to hear, and sunshine to bask in. Therefore, 

 on the whole, while I admit that the butterfly 

 is mainly an animated puppet, I must qualify 

 my opinion by adding that it is a puppet 

 which, after its vague little fashion, thinks 

 and feels very much as we do. 



