|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: virtue. More blinded than the Lycaonians, the people saw no
divinity in our gait; and as our temporary godhead lay more
in the way of observing than healing their infirmities, we
were content to pass them by in scorn.
I could not leave my companion, not from regard or even from
interest, but from a very natural feeling, inseparable from
the case. To understand it, let us take a simile. Suppose
yourself walking down the street with a man who continues to
sprinkle the crowd out of a flask of vitriol. You would be
much diverted with the grimaces and contortions of his
victims; and at the same time you would fear to leave his arm
|
