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...most demonic sins, for Dante, are the sins of the spirit. Hence Brunetto Latini, since he embodies a sensual sin, does not merit punishment so severe as that meted out to the spiritually corrupt...
...Breakthrough. All through his 20s, Faraday was delayed in his scientific development by the ghastly gaps in his education. He was a magnificent "poetical" theorist, but his spelling was a sin and his math a calamity. Unable to make mathematical demonstrations, he was forced to execute physical proofs. Experiment was his instrument, and he employed it with prodigious ingenuity to demolish the world as science...
...Handsome Apple. St. Thomas Aquinas, the most profound thinker of the Middle Ages, declared that contraception "does injury to God." Nonetheless, says Noonan, the Scholastic theologians of the 13th century also began to abandon Augustine's grim view that sex apart from procreation was sinful. Aquinas' mentor, St. Albert the Great, tentatively proposed that sexual intercourse, since it was ordained by God, might have a value in itself. And while Renaissance churchmen still denounced contraception, a few pioneering thinkers were beginning to talk about the human values of sex. In the 15th century, Martin le Maistre of Paris...
...reason why the church cannot move with the times. Already it has come a long way toward acceptance of the principle that other personal values can take primacy in marriage over childbearing, and has long since abandoned the medieval view that sexual intercourse during menstruation and pregnancy is a sin equal to that of contraception...
...perhaps best expressed the mood of the commencement speakers. After warning against "the self-pity now popularly dubbed alienation," he praised the students' concern for social justice, but reminded them that "the ugliness of the radical" is no different from the "ugliness of the reactionary." Both share "the sin of arrogance," which is freedom's enemy. He concluded by revising Barry Goldwater's famous campaign dictum: "Intolerance in the name of freedom is no virtue; patience in the name of justice is no vice...