The World And Its Inhabitants
The World And Its Inhabitants
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It is so anala- gous to that which the human spirit is appointed to undergo, that the intellect cannot well avoid viewing the insect transformation as the emblem, the token, the natural herald and promise of our own. The ancients, without our Christian revelation, thought so ; for one of their most pleasing imaginations, yet visible Digitized by Google 186 6BOQEAPHICAL TISW OF THE EAETH.
oa mnne of their gravestones which we dig up, k that of a butterfly over the name or the inscription which t...hey record. They place the insect there as the repr^ sentation of their Psyche, — of the animating and sur* viving soul, — as the intimation that it will reappear in a new form and region of being. The allusion and the e^plicability are so striking, that we cannot but be- lieve that one of the great purposes of the Deity in creating his insect kingdom was to excite this senti* ment in the human heart ; and to raise by it the con- templative mind to look forward to a possible revival horn the tcnnb, as the butterfly from its sepul
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is so anala- gous to that which the human spirit is appointed to undergo, that the intellect cannot well avoid viewing the insect transformation as the emblem, the token, the natural herald and promise of our own. The ancients, without our Christian revelation, thought so ; for one of their most pleasing imaginations, yet visible Digitized by Google 186 6BOQEAPHICAL TISW OF THE EAETH.
oa mnne of their gravestones which we dig up, k that of a butterfly over the name or the inscription which t...hey record. They place the insect there as the repr^ sentation of their Psyche, — of the animating and sur* viving soul, — as the intimation that it will reappear in a new form and region of being. The allusion and the e^plicability are so striking, that we cannot but be- lieve that one of the great purposes of the Deity in creating his insect kingdom was to excite this senti* ment in the human heart ; and to raise by it the con- templative mind to look forward to a possible revival horn the tcnnb, as the butterfly from its sepul
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 to read onlineMoreLess
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