Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Exiles of Eternity: An Exposition of Dante's Inferno
Many readers the punishments of the Inferno are little more than so many arbitrary and meaningless tortures, suggested by the play of a powerful but savage medieaval imagination; and I have tried to remove this utterly false impression. Once we understand Dante's symbolism. His terrible pictures of pain are seen to be the visible, material. And sym bolic forms in which he shadows forth the natural and inevitable moral and spiritual issues of the various sins. Hell as an external place may or may not exist; but he compels us to feel its reality as a state of the wicked and impenitent soul, by showing us the awful recoil of its own evil on itself.
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