VI.—THE MUMMY, NYMPH, OR CHRYSALIS.
THE MUMMY, NYMPH, OR CHRYSALIS.
Let us respect the childhood of the world. Let us pardon the early ages for the consolations and hopes which they drew from the strange drama represented by the Insect, the thoughts of immortality which grave Egypt founded upon it. This drama tranquillized more hearts and wiped away more tears than all the mysteries of Canopus or the revels of Eleusis.