Ay--look at them--now. Wonder on wonder! For now a miraculous instinct guides and compels the creature--who has, as it were, completed one life--who has accomplished one stage of his existence--to entomb himself. And he accordingly builds or spins himself a tomb--or he buries himself in his grave. Shall I say, that she herself, his guardian, his directress, Great Nature, _coffins_ him? Enclosed in a firm shell--hidden from all eyes--torpid--in a death-like sleep--_not dead_--he waits the appointed hour, which the days and nights bring, and which having come--his renovation, his resuscitation is come. And now the sepulture no longer holds him! Now the prisoner of the tomb has right again to converse with embalmed air and with glittering sunbeams--now, the reptile that _was_--unrecognisably transformed from himself--a glad, bright, mounting creature, unfurls on either side the translucent or the richly-hued pinions that shall waft him at his liking from blossom to blossom, or lift him in a rapture of aimless joyancy to disport and rock himself on the soft-flowing undulating breeze. SEWARD. My dearest sir, the Greek in his darkness, or uncertain twilight of belief, has culled and perpetuated his beautiful emblem. Will the Christian look unmoved upon the singular imaging, which, amidst the manifold strangely-charactered secrets of nature, he finds of his own sealed and sure faith? NORTH. No, Seward. The philosophical Theologian claims in this likeness more than an apt simile, pleasing to the stirred fancy. He sees here an ANALOGY--and this Analogy he proposes as one link in a chain of argumentation, by which he would show that Reason might dare to win from Nature, as a Hope, the truth which it holds from God as revealed knowledge. SEWARD. I presume, sir, you allude to Butler's Analogy. I have studied it. NORTH. I do--to the First Chapter of that Great Work. This parallelism, or apprehended resemblance between an event continually occurring and seen in nature, and one unseen but continually conceived as occurring upon the uttermost brink and edge of nature--this correspondency, which took such fast hold of the Imagination of the Greeks, has, as you know, my dear friends, in these latter days been acknowledged by calm and profound Reason, looking around on every side for evidences or intimations of the Immortality of the Soul. BULLER. Will you be so good, sir, as let me have the volume to study of an evening in my own Tent? NORTH. Certainly. And for many other evenings--in your own Library at home. TALBOYS. Please, sir, to state Butler's argument in your own words and way. NORTH.