The Cuban Love Towels

"There are many, doubtless, who have as yet got no farther in love than their own family; there are others to whom there is neither Frenchman nor Englishman, Jew nor Greek, white nor black--only the sons and daughters of God, only the brothers and sisters of the Lord. There may be who have learned to love the people of their own planet, but not yet to look with patience even upon those of Saturn or Mercury; others there must be, who, whenever they come upon a creature of God's making, love it up to the measure of the contact of their capacity of loving with its possibility of being loved. Some there must surely be capable of loving all life--from that of the archangel before God's throne, to that of the creeping thing he may yet have to destroy--from the beings of their own kind to those of systems never yet brought withing ken of heaven-pouring sage! Or is the heart of God only able for all the varied loves of his endless creations? This is sure, that until we love all we know, we are not true men, the children of him in whose image we are being made."

from George MacDonald's Castle Warlock published in 1882