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" Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe — is it, like Sorrow, merely an element of human education, through which we struggle to a higher and purer state than we could otherwise... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 80
1868
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The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Volume 2

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1892 - 374 pages
...educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is i L/ sin, then, — which we deem such a dreadful blackness y in the universe, — is it, like sorrow, merely an...( of human education, through which we struggle to af higher and purer state than we could otherwise have > attained? Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately...
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The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 6

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1894 - 544 pages
...then?" " Here comes my perplexity," continued Kenyon. " Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is sin, then, — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his ? " " Oh, hush ! " cried Hilda, shrinking from him with an expression of horror which wounded the poor,...
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The marble faun; or, The romance of Monte Beni

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1900 - 402 pages
...continued Kenyon. " Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is sin, then, — which we deem 349 such a dreadful blackness in the universe, — is...ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his ?" " O hush ! " cried Hilda, shrinking from him with an expression of horror which wounded the poor,...
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The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1901 - 660 pages
...then?" " Here comes my perplexity," continued Kenyon. " Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is sin, then, — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...universe, — is it, like sorrow, merely an element of_ human education, through which we struggle to a higher and purer state than we could otherwise...
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The marble faun

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1902 - 476 pages
...perplexity," continued Kenyon. " Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is sin, then—which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe...attained ? Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rife to a far loftier paradise than his ?" " Oh, hush ! " cried Hilda, shrinking from him with an expression...
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Hawthorne's Country

Helen Archibald Clarke - 1910 - 452 pages
...the author's own undercurrent of thought while writing. "Sin has educated Donatello and elevated him. Is sin, then, which we deem such a dreadful blackness...ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?" Unfortunately, he makes this enlightened remark to Hilda, whose conventional goodness from first to...
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Hawthorne's Country

Helen Archibald Clarke - 1910 - 450 pages
...the author's own undercurrent of thought while writing. "Sin has educated Donatello and elevated him. Is sin, then, which we deem such a dreadful blackness...purer state than we could otherwise have attained? Di4 Adam fall that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?" Unfortunately, he...
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The American Novel

Carl Van Doren - 1921 - 334 pages
...touches the theme very sharply : " Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is sin, then, . . . like sorrow, merely an element of human education,...purer state than we could otherwise have attained ? " This is almost as much as to wonder whether experience itself, evil as well as good, does not civilize...
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A Short History of American Literature: Based Upon The Cambrdige History of ...

William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1922 - 456 pages
...theology needs thorough revision, and Hawthorne suggests the logical change in our conception of sin: Is sin then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...Did Adam fall that we might ultimately rise to a far higher Paradise than his? These problems, suggested by the Transcendental philosophy, occupied Hawthorne...
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A Short History of American Literature Based Upon the Cambridge History of ...

William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1923 - 456 pages
...in our conception of sin: Is sin then—which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe—is it, like sorrow, merely an element of human education,...Did Adam fall that we might ultimately rise to a far higher Paradise than his? These problems, suggested by the Transcendental philosophy, occupied Hawthorne...
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