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Professor Charles Eliot Norton delivered the fourth lecture of his course on Dante, last evening in Sanders Theatre before an audience that severely taxed the seating capacity of the theatre. The subject of the lecture was: "The Divine Comedy; - Hell." Professor Norton spoke in substance as follows...
Lecture. Dante. - IV. The Divine Comedy: Hell. Professor Norton. Sanders Theatre...
Professor Charles Eliot Norton will give tonight, at 7.45, in Sanders Theatre, the fourth lecture in his course on Dante. The subject will be: "The Divine Comedy: Hell." References to the lecture will be found in another column...
...Divine Comedy. - Hell...
...subject of the Divine Comedy. Visions of the life to come had long been popular. The novelty of Dante's work lay in the knowledge of the unity of the life on earth and the life after death. Heaven with Dante was not a place of arbitrary reward, nor Hell a place of arbitrary punishment. They were self-determined conditions of the soul of man. He extended the realm of nature into the unseen universe. The Divine Comedy was not intended merely to alarm the sinner by the picture of Hell's horrors, nor to confirm the good...