I only meant to say, in a phrase common to the law, and which your friend Pippin makes use of a dozen times a day, that it did not follow from what you said, that the causes which led to the death of the spider and the butterfly were the same.

This we may know by the manner in which they are respectively destroyed.

The boy, with much precaution and an aversion he does not seek to disguise in his attempts on the spider, employs his shoe or a stick for the purpose of slaughter.
But, with the butterfly, the case is altogether different.

He first catches, and does not fear to hold it in his hand.

He inspects it closely, and proceeds to analyze that which his young thought has already taught him is a beautiful creation of the insect world.