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 | | The paradise of delights, which was Eden, has been turned to wilderness: man is in exile from his patria, condemned to journey as an alien through desert places, when man and nature are at enmity, and indeed, the whole of nature is distorted. |
 | | Or, to choose another illustration: in the twelfth-century mosaic which adorns the apse of the Church of San Clemente, in Rome, one sees the Cross represented as the Tree of life, in a renewed Garden of Eden, wherein are represented a myriad of plants and animals in marvellous harmony, together with scenes of human occupations. |
 | | The whole of the Divine Comedy is the allegorical account of man's journey through wilderness to paradise; and on the summit of Mount Purgatory, the pilgrim, with Virgil's guidance, reaches the terrestrial paradise, which is at once the Golden Age of Virgil and the Eden of the Bible. |
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