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around, and let a little bird conic once in a hun- 

 dred thousand years, and pick offa small particle 

 of the stone not Larger than the tenth part of a- 

 -rain of millet, and after another hundred thou- 

 sand years, let him conic again, so that in ten 

 hundred thousand years he would pick off as 

 much as a grain of millet; we wretched sinners 

 would ask nothing but that when this stone has 

 an end. our pains might also cease; yet even this 

 cannot be." 



Haute Alighieri, whose theology was framed 

 according to Thomas Aquinas is responsible for 

 the following inscription, placed over the portal 

 of Hell: " Lasciate ogni speranza, roich 'entrate** 

 (Abandon every hope, who enter here) ! 



We thus see that scholasticism gives a hearty 

 support to the orthodox theory, and rebukes 

 those who are wise above what is written, and 

 conflict with the best minds and the most tenable 

 positions. 



