INTRODUCTION. XXIX 



?ery person whose discoveries have rendered this 

 analogy less complete than it had been before his 

 time imagined, still impressed with the singular tran- 

 sitions, says, " this process is formed in so remarkable 

 a manner in butterflies, that we see therein the resur- 

 rection painted before our eyes, and exemplified so 

 as to be examined by our hands." * 



The Rev. Mr Kirby makes this interesting allusion 

 to the subject : " But although the analogy between 

 the different states of insects, and those of the body 

 of man, is only general, yet it is much more complete 

 with respect to his soul. He first appears in this frail 

 body a child of the earth a crawling worm his 

 soul being in a course of training and preparation for 

 a more perfect and glorious existence. When it has 

 finished this course, it casts off this vile body, and 

 goes into a hidden state of being in Hades, where it 

 rests from its works, and is prepared for its final 

 consummation. The time for this being arrived, it 

 comes forth clothed with a glorious body, not like its 

 former, though germinating from it, for though * it 

 was sown an animal body, it shall be raised a spirituaJ 

 body,' endowed with augmented powers, faculties 

 and privileges commensurate to its new and happy 

 state. And here the parallel holds perfectly between 



* HILL'S Swammerdam, vol. i. p. 127, a. 



