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Page 144
... Divine Comedy was the state of the soul after death : " the whole work was undertaken , not for a speculative but for a practical end , " and its purpose was to anticipate the Judgment Day , in effect , by removing " those who are ...
... Divine Comedy was the state of the soul after death : " the whole work was undertaken , not for a speculative but for a practical end , " and its purpose was to anticipate the Judgment Day , in effect , by removing " those who are ...
Page 145
... Divine Comedy had been described with the same sort of authority that now convinces the com- mon man of the existence of electrons and vitamins : to believe thus was a test of sanity . Only a few people suspected that the body of dogma ...
... Divine Comedy had been described with the same sort of authority that now convinces the com- mon man of the existence of electrons and vitamins : to believe thus was a test of sanity . Only a few people suspected that the body of dogma ...
Page 146
... Divine Comedy is that this is a moral world and that sin and virtue not merely have a practical issue but an eternal sig- nificance : they not only matter , but they matter infinitely , they matter eternally . The stoic's insensibility ...
... Divine Comedy is that this is a moral world and that sin and virtue not merely have a practical issue but an eternal sig- nificance : they not only matter , but they matter infinitely , they matter eternally . The stoic's insensibility ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PRELUDE TO AN ERA | 17 |
THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSON | 52 |
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