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    flowers ; and , instead of crawling along the ground to satisfy the omvings Gf a gro&s appetite , it is flow guided in its volatile course by the finest impulses of love . Who would have anticipated a butterfly frbm the form 6 f a caterpillar ? Who would have recognized in

    both , oue and the same being , had not experience proved it to us ? And both forms of life are only different periods of one and the same existence on one and the same earth ; where the organic circle commences anew a corresponding course . What new forms , then , of beautiful development must be slumbering in the bosom of nature ,

    where her circle of organic life spreads wider , and the periods which she successively evolves embrace more than one world ! Hope then , O man ! and prophesy not : the prize is before thee ; labour to secure it . Cast from thee what is unworthy of thy nature ; aspire after truth , goodness , and heavenly beauty ; fco canst thou not miss thine immortal aim */

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    [ This paper is not a literal translation , but rather a near imitation of gome beautiful thoughts by the Reverend S . Vincent , Pastor of the Protestant Church of Nismes , which were published in the perio * dical entitled * Religion et Christianisme / edited by Mr * V « , in conjunction with his co-pastor M * Fontanes . In many of M , Vincent ' s papers we are struck with a turn of thought and a style much resembling those of Dr . Channing . The character of the periodical , also * bfcara a very near resemblance to the American * Christian Ex *

    ftminer ; ' it has the same didactic and clerical appearance ; two leading articles , generally pretty long ones , comprise in themselves the chief interest of each number , but these are noble pieces of writing . It does one's heart good to find in our neighbour-land * in that latid which * in a religious point of view , many are perhaps too apt to hold tn contempt , such fervent , rational , earnest piety . The spirit of this periodical is really beyond all praise ; its tone is gentle , humble , firm ; it is full of well-considered and well-arranged truths *

    - * Fifth Bdok , V » , pp . 234-5 . The butterfly , in this relation , has been a favourite common-place With poets and sentimental prose writers . We are reminded of Herder in the following beautiful lines from , perhaps , the most finished and graceful of all the effusions ot the late Mr . Roscoe ' s muse . Unconscious of a mother ' s care > No infant wretchedness she knew ; But as she felt the vernal air , At once to full perfection grew . Her slender form , etherial , light , Her velvet-textured wings enfold , With all the rainbow ' s colours bright , And dropt with spvts of burnish'd gold . And balanced oft her ' broidereu wings , Through fields of air prepared to sail ; Then oft her venturous journey springs , And floats along the rising gale . TM Birth of the Butter / ly .

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    4 & Tfa PMtosopAfy d / the Jtktory ofWtunMnfi .

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    TH £ VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1832, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1804/page/42/