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Why is robert louis stevenson a heretic?

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a. A controversial or unorthodox opinion or doctrine, as in politics, philosophy, or science. b. Adherence to such controversial or unorthodox opinion. (source)

I am proud to be a heretic since 1965, when I first argued that an explanation in the class science book was bogus. (I was right.) Since then I have often found myself arguing a third point of view in arguments that seemed to have two sides. I am not always right but I always increase the likelihood that *somebody* is right.

Henry Jekyll was not exactly a heretic. It was not so much his views that were radical but his behavior. Instead of having a coherent philosophy of his own (as I recall the story) he was self-centered to the extent of wishing ill on anybody who was not pandering to him.

Robert Louis Stevenson was very much the opposite of Henry Jekyll. There is a strong sense of morality infusing his stories. In Treasure Island he pits the innocent young Jim Hawkins against a series of increasingly vile characters, from the rough-hewn Billy Bones through the smooth but ruthless Long John Silver. In The Sire De Malétroits Door the hapless swain refuses to marry Blanche, at peril of his life, until he is certain it is what Blanche wants. I would call Stevenson a moralist rather than a heretic.Source(s):Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

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it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm, in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment, thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts. one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r. hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r. and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent. i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.

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