Word: chrysalises
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The egg of a butterfly grows into a larva, and the larva converts itself into a pupa all bound up in its chrysalis, and finally the bright winged imago emerges. But the egg is separated from the imago by no wider span or stranger transmutations than there are between a...
Before Harvard audiences he has emphasized his super-creedal ideal. He has believed that a new era is at hand, in which traditional religion is breaking through its hard chrysalis of dogma and coming forth a changing, living faith in harmony with a changing, living world. For him, dogmas can...
His latest work, The Chrysalis, depicting a young man emerging from the form of a gorilla, was refused admission to the current exhibition of the National Academy on the ground of lack of artistic merit (TIME, Mar. 24).
Said the Unitarian: "When a man of science, who is also a great sculptor, has produced such a masterpiece as The Chrysalis, which has a real spiritual message for the men of today, surely the church should recognize his work."
The Academy declared that having space for only 400 works at its exhibition, Mr. Akeley's bronze was of insufficient artistic merit to be included. His subject was The Chrysalis and showed a hoary gorilla from which was emerging the idealized form of a man.