...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...