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...reflected in a mirror. Dante is both a poet and a moralist. He is not content to give men a reflected view of life alone, but he uses his mirror as a medium through which to lead men on to righteousness. He is the chief poet of the higher inward experience of man. In order to understand the character of Dante it will be necessary to consider his surroundings and the tendencies of the age in which he lived...
...deal of pleasure in it though I cannot see it. I have long ago lost my sight, but I love to sit here and recall it, and think that it is all there." It lies in our own choice with what pictures we may fill our minds, whether our inward eye shall command noble prospects over the whole domain of human thoughts, or shall be bounded by the narrow alley of a merely utilitarian training...
...through the possession of truth but through the search after it that his powers expand, and in that alone consists his ever-growing perfection. Possession makes us easy, indolent, and proud. If God held all truth shut in his right hand, and in his left the single, inward, pure longing for truth, though with the condition of perpetually erring; I should bow humbly on his left hand and say: "Father, give! pure truth is for Thee alone...
II.Originality and Tradition in Literature.Plutarchian parallels are apt to be a little forced by the overpowering necessity of finding analogues and coincidences betwen two sets of facts in which though there may be a general outward similarity in the events, there is no inward likeness in the causes by which the events were brought about, and the circumstances which modified them. In biography it is this action and reaction of the man upon the element in which he works, and of that element upon him, which tests and gauges the quality and amount of his character, the only thing...
...sight of God is only faith, is only a sight of men's own souls. In the back ground of every soul, behind all its sin, is a reflection of God's image. The sight of the invisible comes from looking inward, from the examination of souls. Christ saw so clear an image of God and modelled his life so truly after that image that his character became godlike. We can see the invisible in the character of Christ, an image of which we all have in our own souls and a sight of this invisible will make us like...