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Dante believed firmly that the setting forth of the lessons of wisdom was his divinely appointed task, and that in his work he was guided and strengthened by God himself. He intended to lead men to a happier, better condition on earth, by showing them the misery that they made for themselves by sin, and by pointing out the way by which they must ascend to blessedness. In few other works of men do we find such uninterrupted consistency of purpose as in the Divine Comedy. From the beginning to the end of the poem the aim of Dante...
...various degrees. By this pool they meet and conquer Dis, or Satan, once the fairest of Heaven's angles. The picture of Satan is the most horrible and monstrous to be found in the work. After leaving Dis they turn their faces upward till at length they come forth upon the surface of the earth to see again the stars...
After pointing out the lack of any natural boundaries separating New England from its neighbors, he said that only about twenty of the sixteen hundred flowering plants of the district could be called characteristic. All of the rest pass freely back and forth over barriers which exist only on the map. The vegetation of a country is the expression of ancestral peculiarities modified by the surroundings. The remote ancestry of our flora was proved by the late Professor Gray to be the same as that of Eastern Asia, and hence many species occur in the Atlantic States which are substantially...
...then, in the short time that remains before final action is taken and the last hope is gone, have some strong, sincere, but always courteous, expressions of opinion from undergraduates. These will bring forth, I am sure, an equally vigorous endorsement from graduates, possibly in the form of an informal appeal to the Corporation and Overseers, who, while it may not lie within their province to over-rule directly any action that has been taken, may have sufficient influence to secure what the Athletic Committee has asked - a chance to put a game on the field next fall that will...
...growing demand for expression. The Roman Church also had a strong hold upon the minds of Italians at this time, and the power which she possessed was the ark of civilization. In the early part of the thirteenth century the long pent up feeling in men's hearts burst forth into a religious revival, which had as its motive the bringing of all men within the fold of the Christian Church...