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.