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does it seem that these have a single per- 

 ceptive faculty, unless it be that of stri- 

 ving to preserve their existence, and al- 

 lay their insatiable appetite for food.- 

 Having, at length, however, with the 

 most patient assiduity, performed the 

 mental task that was assigned them, they 

 are then called, by the bounty of the Cre- 

 ator, into another and superior state of 

 existence, in which thev are destined to 

 perform a part the most opposite which 

 can be conceived to that they formerly ac- 

 ted. The unsightly grub, after a tempo- 

 rary death, awakens into new life ; and 

 deserting the clod it lately inhabited, and 

 nauseating its former food, sports in the 

 sun-beam, and sips the balmy dew ; nor 

 does the butterfly, now arrayed in the most 

 gorgeous attire, seem to claim the most 

 distant alliance with the ugly caterpillar 

 from whence it sprang. The attraction 

 of sex seems to form the chief business of 

 this period of life ; food is neglected as if 

 unnecessary, and its life is devoted to am- 

 orous dalliance alone. Having soon pro- 

 vided a numerous progency of voracious 

 labourers, it leaves this transitory scene, 

 to make room for those who are destined 



