Dante's Inferno




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Every sin you commit with your spirit, each sin of passion and temper, envy and malice, pride and vanity, injustice and cruelty, extravagance and self-indulgence, helps to destroy your spiritual life, and leave you bad, more and more unable to do the right and avoid the wrong, more and more unable to discern right from wrong; and that last is spiritual death, the eternal death of your moral being. There are three parts in you - body, mind, and spirit; and every sin you commit helps to kill one of these three, and, in many cases, to kill all three together. -- THE WATER OF LIFE AND OTHER SERMONS BY CHARLES KINGSLEY.

Fifth Circle of Hell. In the swamp-like water of the river Styx, the wrathful fight each other on the surface, and the sullen or slothful lie gurgling beneath the water. Phlegyas reluctantly transports Dante and Virgil across the Styx in his skiff.



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