“ where a faith has been trodden out, we may look for a mean and narrow population. ”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879). copy citation
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
|---|---|
| Source | Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes |
| Topic | meanness faith narrowness |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Travels_with_a_Donkey_in_the_Cevennes |
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“That was not the opinion of the priest and soldier at Our Lady of the Snows. But this is a different race; and perhaps the same great-heartedness that upheld them to resist, now enables them to differ in a kind spirit. For courage respects courage; but where a faith has been trodden out, we may look for a mean and narrow population. The true work of Bruce and Wallace was the union of the nations; not that they should stand apart awhile longer, skirmishing upon their borders; but that, when the time came, they might unite with self-respect.”
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