"Thaumaturgical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... customs may seem, always hear them with patience, always judge them with gentleness, always find in them some seed of good; see that you always develop them; remember that all you can do is to civilise the man in the line of his own civilisation, such as it is. And never expect, never believe in, thaumaturgic conversions. They may do very well for St. Paul; in the case of an Andaman islander they mean less than nothing. In fact, what you have to do is to teach the parents in the interests ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson |
