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have, since the time of the Greek poets, 

 been applied to typify the human being its 

 terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate 

 celestial destination ; and it seems more ex- 

 traordinary that a sordid and crawling worm 

 should become a beautiful and active fly 

 that an inhabitant of the dark and foetid 

 dunghill should in an instant entirely change 

 its form, rise into the blue air, and enjoy the 

 sunbeams, than that a being, whose pursuits 

 here have been after an undying name, and 

 whose purest happiness has been derived 

 from the acquisition of intellectual power 

 and finite knowledge, should rise hereafter 

 into a state of being, where immortality is no 

 longer a name, and ascend to the source of 

 Unbounded Power and Infinite Wisdom. 



PHYS. I have been listening, Halieus, to 

 your account of water-flies with attention, 

 and I only regret, that your details were not 

 more copious; let me now call your attention 

 to that Michaelmas daisy. A few minutes 

 ago, before the sun sunk behind the hill, its 

 flowers were covered with varieties of bees, 

 and some wasps, all busy in feeding on its 



