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Excerpt from Pride: A Phi Beta Kappa Address Pride is the greatest of Sins. It is the very foundation of all sin, inasmuch as sin consists in defying God's law. It should be said that the seven sins are such only when in excess. Thus, as certain drugs, when taken in small doses, are harmless and may even be healing, but are deadly poisons if taken in large quanti ties; so the seven sins may be salutary if used in moderation, but they become deadly sins when in excess. For instance, no one objects to a little honest pride, provided it be little and honest. We admire the honest pride of a child in a prize won at school, of a workman in labor well performed, of a mother in children well reared, of a patriot in the noble deeds of the heroes of his country. But overweening pride is sin. Toward the close of the thirteenth century the Florentine poet, Dante Alighieri, undertook to write an allegorical account of a visit to the three regions of the dead, Hell, Purgatory and Para dise. In Dante's Hell the souls of the damned are tortured for specific crimes, but the souls in Purgatory are punished for some one of the seven fundamental sins. Thus, in the first ledge, the souls of those whose predominant Sin on earth was pride are being purged of the stains of Sin. As on earth they held their heads high, in Purgatory they go about the ledge with their heads bowed and with heavy weights on their backs. Beneath their feet are sculptured pictures illustrating stories of humility, that by having these ever before their eyes, the sinners may the sooner cast off all pride. When the purgation is complete, the soul rises of itself, automatically as it were, to Heaven. Dante accepts the order of sins given by Saint Gregory the Great, except that in the fifth ledge the prodigals are punished with the misers, for Dante held that prodigality is as great a Sin as avarice. In the Divine Comedy, Dante sums up and gives artistic expression to the teachings of the mediaeval schoolmen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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