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shroud in which it was buried, in part composed of the 

 silk made from its own body; and, because it needed 

 strengthening, you see, just as we mix cotton and silk in 

 one fabric, so is it here. This cocoon is made partly of 

 silk, produced from leaves by digestion, and partly from 

 the curious hairs which it must have removed from its 

 own body previous to what we call " death." 



Now for the imago ! What a sight ! " Do you mean 

 to say this splendid moth, with its countless featherlike 

 scales on its four exquisite wings, and its branched an- 



Portion of the wing of a moth, showing the points where the scales were 



removed. 



tennse, having two hundred joints in the pair, each joint 

 of which is covered with hairs, invisible to our eyes 

 without our instrument that this wonderful thing came 

 from that empty tomb ? " You may well ask the ques- 

 tion. Quite true, indeed it is ; but is it not strange, being 

 true, that so little is seen in the sublime lesson it teaches ? 

 and do you not think I truly have described this section 

 of the cabinet, " Resurrection at Sight " ? 



Of course you know that these scales are to the insect 

 just what feathers are to the bird organs of flight; and 



