...down. When he surmises in chapter 50 that "Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him," then wonders: "is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...purer state than we could otherwise have attained?" Hilda recoils from his speculation as from an obscenity: "Oh, hush!" cried Hilda, shrinking from him...

...the problem to Hilda: "Here comes my perplexity . . . 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?" (1,236) He may seem to be merely repeating Miriam's argument, and, very importantly, he is - up to...

...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...

...you!" (4: 435). Yet follow her he does when a few chapters later he frames the question for Hilda: "Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?" To which Hilda testily rejoins: "Oh, hush!" (4: 460). Miriam proposes that transgression and the guilt which...

...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...

...continues Kenyon, once again using that signal word; "Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then - which we deem such a dreadful blackness...rise to a far loftier Paradise than his?" to which Hilda, true to form, responds: "Oh, hush! . . . This is terrible . . . You have shocked me beyond words"...

...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...