Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Merrill.Mrs. Ceres, of the Earth, Earthy...
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...
...choir sang a chorus from Rubenstein's "Tower of Babel"; E. M. Waterhouse '97, sang Barnard's "Plains of Peace," and Walter N. Edgerly '86, sang "A New Heaven and and a New Earth" from "The Holy City" of Gaul...
...fullest existence is the 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...
...first to emerge above sea level. It has, therefore, acquired a permanence of character not to be found in any other part of the continent. This characteristic was further increased by the glaciers which at three distinct periods have passed over New England, thus increasing the hardness of the earth's surface...