And yet, when one comes to think upon it calmly, the situation of these South American citizens forms only a very pale figure for the state of ordinary mankind.
然而,冷静想来,这些南美居民的处境,也不过是寻常人类境况的一幅淡淡的缩影。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Æs Triplex —