According to Rev Hyde in 1889 "Damien was a coarse, dirty, headstrong bigot, not pure in his reations with women, a man whose own leprosy was due to his vices and carelessness". In a powerfully impassioned response, Robert Louis Stevenson, upholds Fr Damien and accuses his fellow Presbyterian of unjustly maligning a man of virtue and humanity who would one day, he prophesied, be canonised a saint. Stevenson composes a powerful work of evidence-based humanitarianism, about compassion, ecumenism and reconciliation, about human failings and the importance of justice. This book is highly recommended.
Additional Information
| Author | Editor: Don Mullan |
| ISBN / Code | 9781906077051 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages / Minutes | 96 |
| Publisher | A Little Book Company |
