A Christmas Sermon
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Scribner's Magazine carried this essay in 1888 as Robert Louis Stevenson's farewell after twelve months of writing for its readers. He starts from Charles II's remark that he was an unconscionable time a-dying, and treats it as a picture of every life. From there he turns to how people judge themselves and their neighbours: he asks for gentleness toward our own failings, and he argues that a morality built on forbidden acts warps the imagination. He sets Christ's "thou shalt" against "thou shalt not".
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Book facts
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Reading time
- About 15 minutes
- Pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Essays
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