Moclorn naturalists, impressed with tlie same notion, 

 and laudably solititous to apply it as an illustration of the 

 awful mystery revealed in the sacred writings, have drawn 

 their allusions to it from the dormant condition of the 

 papilionaceous insects during their state of chrysalis, and 

 their resuscitation from it. This idea is also beautifully 

 expressed by the elegant author of " Ihe Pleasures of 

 Memory," in the following very appropriate stanzas : — 



"Child of the sun ! pursue tliy rapturous fli^lit, 

 MiuKlinf,' with horthou liiv'st, in liclils of Ught; 

 Anil where the flowers of ijiiriidisi' untiilil, 

 Quaff fragrant nectar from tlieir cujis of gold. 

 There shall thy wings, rich a.s an evening sky, 

 Expand and shut witli silent extasy. 

 — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing tliat crept 

 On the bare earth, then wrouglit a touib aud slept ! 

 And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay 

 To bur.st a seraph in the blaze of day." 



Even the animated illustration taken from the vegetable 

 world, so justly admired, as best calculated for general 

 apprehension, must yield, in the force of its similitude, to 

 that drawn from this insect's life, since nature exhibits few 

 phenomena that can equal so wonderful a transformation. 



" There is no one," says Paley, " who does not possess 

 some particular train of thought to which the mind 

 naturally directs itself, when left entkely to its own 

 operations. It is certain, too, that the choice of this train 

 of thinking may ho directed to different ends, and may 



