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life in the moment of enjoyment, following an 

 instinct, the gratification of which has been 

 always pleasurable! so beneficent are all the 

 laws of Divine Wisdom. 



PHYS. Like Ornither, I consider the de- 

 stiny of this insect as desirable, and I cannot 

 help regarding the end of human life as most 

 happy, when terminated under the impulse of 

 some strong energetic feeling, similar in its 

 nature to an instinct. I should not wish to 

 die like Attila in a moment of gross sensual 

 enjoyment : but the death of Epaminondas or 

 Nelson in the arms of victory, their whole 

 attention absorbed in the love of glory and 

 of their country, I think really enviable. 



POIET. I consider the death of the mar- 

 tyr or the saint as far more enviable ; for in 

 this case, what may be considered as a divine 

 instinct of our nature, is called into exertion, 

 and pain is subdued, or destroyed, by a se- 

 cure faith in the power and mercy of the 

 Divinity. In such cases man rises above 

 mortality, and shows his true intellectual su- 

 periority. By intellectual superiority I mean 

 that of his spiritual nature, for I do not con- 



