ANALOGY — TRUE AND FALSE 33 



ther hen is dead. When the egg really dies we 

 know the result, as we know the result when the 

 corn rots in the ground. It is not dissolution that 

 the seed experiences, but evolution. The illustra- 

 tion of the eloquent apostle may captivate the fancy, 

 but as argument designed to convince the under- 

 standing it has no force. 



There might be force in the argument for immor- 

 tality drawn from the metamorphosis of the grub 

 into the butterfly, if the chrysalis really were a 

 shroud and held a dead body. But it is not, any 

 more than an egg is ; it is quick, and capable of 

 movement. The analogy between it and the dead 

 body will not hold. A much more sound analogy, 

 based upon the chrysalis, is that which takes it as 

 the type of a mind or soul undeveloped, — slumber- 

 ing, gestating, — and the winged creature as the de- 

 veloped, emancipated mind. 



Analogy means an agreement of relations or an 

 equality of ratios. 



When we speak of the body as a tenement and 

 the soul as the tenant, we mean or aver that the re- 

 lation of the soul to the body is the same as that 

 of the man to the house he occupies. In either case 

 the occupant can move out or in, and is entirely dis- 

 tinct from the structure that shelters him. But if 

 we know anything about the relations of the mind 

 and the body, we know that they are not like this ; 

 we know that they are not truthfully expressed in 

 this comparison. 



Bishop Butler's " analogy from nature," upon 



