Author: Edward Everett Hale

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781334967931

Excerpt from The Christian Examiner: January, 1865 At Rome, in 1216, Dominic and Francis 'met. Dominic, thinking perhaps to find a tool as well as ally in his friend, wished to weld their separate bodies. But Francis, keen enough to evade the clutches of the dogmatic schoolman, answered, N o then they embraced and parted. A wood cut, from a picture of this meeting preserved in the Spanish gallery of the Louvre, brings it before us in all the Wealth of contrast and association, - this meeting from which they parted to divide the world; The hard, heavy features of Dominic fitly symbolize his rigor of intellect and polemic sternness. The delicate, finer cut of those of Franms is suggestive of ten der fervor and poetic warmth. \his less passionate, colder nature is typified by the sluggish eye of Dominic; the spirit ual, heavenward look of Francis speaks of an aspiring, strug gling soul. The dog and fire-brand recall the combatant's fierceness; the penitent's' meek sufferings find their symbols in the lily and the lamb. They parted, the one with weapons of eloquence and logic to subdue the world, the other to ood it with waves of love the one the personification of the world's haughtiness, rigidity, stiffness, the other of its humility, sus ceptibility, gentleness; the one like the cherub in wisdom, the other like the Seraph in fervor. 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."