Excerpt from Dante and Other Waning Classics

Literature takes man as he is, it roots itself in human nature and material as well as spiritual desires, it shows us the individual with his impulses to exercise all his faculties and satisfy his instincts. Theology is taken up with devotion and repentance, it aims after piety, it wishes to dehumanize man.

If literature is to be made a study of human nature, wrote Cardinal Newman, who certainly was no enemy of theology.

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