Word: lust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seven cornices on the mountain of Purgatory, up which the pilgrim must climb, are the sins of pride, envy, anger, gloomy indifference, avarice, lust, and gluttony. Pride is a sin against God, for it makes man self-centered. Envy is the evil eye that looks with malignant intent upon the more successful man. Gloomy indifference is that dangerous state of mind which leads one finally to embrace sin. Lust is the flame through which every man and woman must sometime pass,--namely, the desires of the flesh...
...view, he constructed his "Inferno" so as to classify the various sins according to their relative baseness and to adjust the penalties with suitability to the sins. Dante's "Inferno" is like an inverted funnel, consisting of concentric circles. The first four circles are occupied by sinners through impulse--lust, gluttony, greed. The fifth circle--the "circle of transition" is occupied by malcontents. The rest of the way to the city of Dis is people by heretics, then by those who have been false both to principle and to communities, and, at the final depth by those who have been...
...they understand each other. The author has so refined them that they are no longer the plain human sort one knows. Besides, they so seldom do anything worth while. They talk, not always brilliantly, and fade away somehow in whispers and twilight. They make one long for blood and lust even to melodrama...
...face at the present time is materialism and commercialism, and it is because of the over-valuation that men place on worldly goods that the progress of the world is so slow. The world of the Middle Ages was anything but ideal, being full of greed, cruelty, and lust, but the world of today is above all else, symbolical of materialism...