Meaning of Friendship

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Through almost everything that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote there runs the winning note, the human touch, that grips us all by its unconscious spell, so powerful is the friendly spirit. The essence of Stevenson's teaching seems to be that the way to make true friends is to be a true friend to others,-a simple re cipe, yet a hard one to live up to in this our world.