Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1917 — An Analogy. [ARTICLE]

An Analogy.

To renew one’s youth! Is that only a fantastic dream, delusive mirage, or is it a promise? Sub-human nature offers a hint of this human experience. The new-born butterfly which, having dried its wings in the genial sunlight, has Just flitted away across the garden, exhibits every mark and sign of youth. Last spring, this same creature was born a caterpillar. Between these two states of youth successive the one to the other there is no break in continuity of Individual existence. From the laying of the egg to the spinning of the cocoon, the,insect passes through all the natural stages of infancy, youth, maturity. But 10, a second youth!—Edward Lewis, in the Atlantic.