Word: souls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Roger Williams banished because he beleived in "soul liberty...
...Hell are formed by converging rocks, which ended in the centre with a deep pit. The ledges of Purgatory, on the other hand, are formed by the retreating of the walls. On the very summit of the mountain of Purgatory is the earthly Paradise, through which the purified soul must pass before it can enter Heaven. In Hell sinful deeds are punished, but in Purgatory it is not an action but a disposition, of which the sinner is purged. Here the soul welcomes suffering as an approach to the utmost felicity. There is terrible suffering, but suffering always borne with...
...pangs of exile which Dante suffered were added the pangs of disappointment. The whips and stings which be had to bear drove him at length to take refuge within himself and there in the sanctuary of his own soul he found the peace and security he had yearned for. Never was there a greater difference between the outer and inner life than we see at this time in Dante. The hand of man had let him go, and he grasped the hand...
...political contentions of Florence, it was not strange that such a man as Dante, throwing himself heart and soul into politics, should have aroused distrust. In 1302 he was exiled, his property was confiscated, and he was condemned to be burned if found again within the territory of Florence...
...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 by the picture of Heaven's delights. It was intended simply to instruct, to warn...