Capitolo 73
the habit of caterpillars managed well, as of managed well young
gentleman), you/he/she would easily be excused to form only for first the
impression sadness that a general resolution was coming him/it on
piece asunder. It has to start to feel legs and eyes and nervous centers
you melt away from degrees in a ground of ownership common organic and indistinguishable pulp, out
of what the new organs only slowly their form in obedience to the
law of some inside impulse. But when the trial is entirely ended, and--hi,
soon!--the butterfly finally emerges from the condition of chrysalis,
what it finds but that instead of having lost everything it has new
and stronger legs in place of the old one and a weak; it has nerves and
brain more developed that before; it has wings for flight instead of
small feet that walk to on all four mere to crawl with? What seemed as chaos was
really nothing more than to mix necessary on every component
you depart in a plastic condition in which it precedes every fresh departure
evolution. The old man has to grow weak him first the new ones you/they can replace him/it.
I won't perhaps work rather this fantastic analogy to
death, or it pretends it is anything more than a convenient metaphor. Still,
taken as so, it is not without his/her brightness. For a metaphor, from
providing us with a representation of picturable, it often trains really us
to get to hangs him some thing a best enormous quantity that the most solemn
matter. And I sometimes imagine the communities they pass only through such
stage of chrysalis, when it seems to the timid and pessimistic one in them
half as if every element of component of the State (but especially that
in that them their friends and they are interested particularly)
you/he/she was dressing again wicker violently down a steep place to eternal perdition. Chaos
it seems coop swallowing on everything. "The natural relationships of
classes" they disappear. Faiths melt; churches dissolve; moralses are grown weak; obligations
error; an universal magma of emancipated opinion seems to happen