448 coLT.OQUiA f:ntomoi,ogica. 



my spirit sank not, but yet 1 always felt that it was looking 

 up — a feeling, but with him, 1 never knew. 



Aris. He had been great indeed, but checkless power o'er- 

 threw the even tenor of his soul, his mind became inebriate and 

 vague, and mad ambition wasting from within, like some 

 volcano's subterraneous fire, conquered the conqueror of 

 half the world ; and worse than this, excludes his soul from 

 heaven. 



Cuv. Aristoteles, dost thou say that blood erects a barrier 

 betwixt earth and heaven ? where then can be that meek, yet 

 noble form, with graceful step, and such a heaven-born brow, 

 engaged in converse with the man who found another world, 

 and that world's glorious child, who, like Prometheus, drew 

 down fire from heaven ; has that right hand been never dyed 

 in blood? 



Aris. Washington ! (Maiient.) 



Scene V. — Another part of the Wood. 

 Aristoteles, and other Naturalists. 



Latreille. Welcome to thee and thine, Fabricius ; of all 

 who ever wrote on insect life, whether in scholarship, or deep 

 research, or clear description, thou art far the first ; thy match- 

 less page, in graceful language clad, must ever please as much 

 as it instructs. Hail, sovereign of entomology ! thou ever 

 welcome one ! and welcome to this learned Briton, not to me 

 unknown. 



Stom. His name is Lepidopterophilus. 



Cuv. My Lepidopterophilus, although on earth I never 

 heard thy honoured name — honoured I doubt not but it must 

 have been — so limited my knowledge of my kin, for all in 

 science are of kindred blood, still art thou not less kindly wel- 

 come here. Thine was a portion of the great pursuit ; and it 

 is by such laboured works as thine, that the great whole is into 

 harmony arranged by others, who decline the task of working- 

 out each separate tribe complete: Aristoteles, Raius, and 

 myself, alas ! how wide the difference between ! range o'er 

 the whole, nor perfect any part; whilst this my dearest friend, 

 Latreille, Fabricius, Stomentomologus, and thou, my Lepidoj)- 

 terophilus, perfect the parts ; your part, the insect tribes. But 



