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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TABLE II CLASSIFICATION OF PURG. XVII. Natural, cannot go wrong (11. 93, 94) Love, source ofI Right, if directed towards God and Virtue, good or bad or towards secondary goods in moderation (IL 103-105)(11. 97-99) f Prided' animo J (11. 115-117)' (1-93) ]for evil ! for one's neighbours) in .Envy any degree(11. 118-120) .Wrong, in three(11. 106-114)Anger ways (11. 95, v(ll. 131-123) 96, also loo, 101)for good, remissly Accidia (11. 130-133) for good, in excess (IL 133-139) Avarice Gluttony IV. DANTE'S PERSONAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS DIFFERENT KINDS OF SIN THE object of the present Essay is to trace the personal feelings manifested by Dante from time to time in regard to the different forms of Sin or classes of Sinners which are brought before us in the Inferno. His emotions, whether of pity, sympathy, indignation, contempt, disgust, do not always or necessarily correspond with his deliberate judgement as to the relative heinousness of the different sins. There are many aspects or qualities of sins which keenly excite our personal feelings, while influencing in a much less degree, if at all, our judgement as to their gravity in themselves. Some sins, for example, are peculiarly odious, degrading, contemptible; or specially pernicious in their effects on society. Others, on the other hand, are often associated with some qualities that command our sympathy or even admiration, as, for example, if they ever involve an element of courage, endurance, self-forgetfulness, or even it may be generosity l. However strongly we may condemn such sins, we cannot feel contempt or loathing for the sinners. Again, there may be in individual cases some conditions or circumstances in the sinner himself which mitigate our condemnation, or, if not our formal condemnation, at least...