The convulsive hold which Mary to this day maintains over human imagination,— as you can see at Lourdes,— was due much less to her power of saving soul or body than to her sympathy with people who suffered under law,— divine or human,— justly or unjustly, by accident or design, by decree of God or by guile of Devil. She cared not a straw for conventional morality, and she had no notion of letting her friends be punished, to the tenth or any other generation, for the sins of their ancestors or the peccadillos of Eve.


Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)

Henry Adams Quotes

The convulsive hold which Mary to this day maintains over human imagination,— as you can see at Lourdes,— was due much less to her power of...

The convulsive hold which Mary to this day maintains over human imagination,— as you can see at Lourdes,— was due much less to her power of...

The convulsive hold which Mary to this day maintains over human imagination,— as you can see at Lourdes,— was due much less to her power of...

The convulsive hold which Mary to this day maintains over human imagination,— as you can see at Lourdes,— was due much less to her power of...