[182] Id., p. 27.
[183] Cf. Statius’ words in Purg. xxii. 76—
Già era ’l mondo tutto quanto pregno
De la vera credenza, seminata
Per li messaggi dell’ etterno regno.
[184] See The New Teaching, edited by Prof. John Adams (Hodder and Stoughton, 1918, 10/6), pp. 9, 11. This work came into the writer’s hands after the virtual completion of the present essay; but it sums up so compactly the point of view of the modern principles he desired to illustrate, that he has found occasion to refer to it with some frequency.
[185] Cf. The New Teaching, p. 64, where Prof. J. Adams says of the study of English Literature: “the radical difference between the old teaching and the new is that we have passed from books about books to the books themselves.”
[186] See La Poesia di Dante, pp. 14, 15.
[187] See H. O. Taylor, The Mediaeval Mind. Mr. Taylor heads his 43rd and last chapter “The Mediaeval Synthesis: Dante.” See Vol. II, p. 534; and Dante and Mediaeval Thought, in the present volume, p. 80.
[188] Par. xxv. 3; Conv. III, ix. 146 sqq.; p. 285, Oxf. Ed.; p. 226 sq., Bemporad.