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C h r y s a l i s II: C a r p a t h i a n L i b e r t y

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Bathory Chrysalis

The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful portion of it, are
thus the main thing which has practically determined the rules laid down for
general observance, under the penalties of law or opinion. And in general,
those who have been in advance of society in thought and feeling, have left
this condition of things unassailed in principle however they may have come
into conflict with it in some of its details. They have occupied themselves
rather in inquiring what things society ought to like or dislike, than in
questioning whether its likings or dislikings should be a law to individuals.
They preferred endeavouring to alter the feelings of mankind on the particular
points on which they were themselves heretical, rather than make common
cause in defence of freedom, with heretics generally.
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Chrysalis: A transitional state. Origin – Early seventeenth century:
From Latin Chrysal(l)is, Chrysal(l)id-, from Greek Khrusallis, from

khrusos ‘gold’ (because of the gold colour or metallic sheen of some
pupae).
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8 John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Chapter 1, pp. 18-19. (Mill, 1863)
9 Oxford University Press, en.oxforddictionaries.com, English Oxford Living Dictionaries.