...Saint Hilda, whatever church may canonize you' " [p. 364). Kenyon suggests that perhaps "Sin is ... like Sorrow, merely an element of human education...otherwise have attained. Did Adam fall, that we might rise to a far loftier Paradise than his?" Here Kenyon touches the very heart of the book, raising the...

...has no right to tread where you now set your feet." And again, when Kenyon asks Hilda, "Is sin then, like sorrow, merely an element of human education,...purer state than we could otherwise have attained?" — the Conscience answers: "Do you not perceive what a mockery such a creed makes not only of all...

...theory, "It is too dangerous, Miriam! I cannot follow you!", he ends by repeating her arguments to Hilda. "Is sin, then, — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...like sorrow, merely an element of human education. . . . Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?" Put in Kenyon's...

...predicts this moral in his preface by referring to the "Fortunate Fall" of Adam. Says Kenyon: "Is sin ... like sorrow, merely an element of human education,...ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?" In a characteristically weak ending, Donatello is simply trapped by police and put in prison. The Marble...

...offers a "moral" to Hilda, it is an idea shockingly similar to Miriam's unorthodox theology: "Is Sin ... an element of human education, through which we struggle to a higher and purer state . . . Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier Paradise than his?" With an expression...

...Fall: "Here comes my perplexity," continued Kenyon. "Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a loftier Paradise than his?" "Oh, hush!" cried Hilda, shrinking from him with an expression of horrour...

...diese „puritanische" Lesart ins Spiel bringt. Gegen Ende der Geschichte stellt dann Kenyon die Frage: „Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier Paradise than his?" (357) Diese augustinische Auffassung der „felix culpa",34 wonach die Existenz des Bösen theologisch...

...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?" "O hush!" cried Hilda, shrinking from him with an expression of horror which wounded the poor, speculative...

...sense: "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?" (460) . Hilda adamantly repudiates this version of die story, demonstrating "the white shining purity"...

...the novel. "Oh, hush," says Hilda when Kenyon asks what is perhaps the Miltonic question of the text: "Is Sin, then - which we deem such a dreadful blackness...ultimately rise to a far loftier Paradise than his?" (460). Hilda responds indignantly: "You have shocked me beyond words." To which Kenyon responds by...