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Title: Dante: "The Central Man of All the World"
A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920

Author: John T. Slattery

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DANTE: "THE CENTRAL MAN OF ALL THE WORLD."

A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the
New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920

by

JOHN T. SLATTERY, Ph.D.

With a Preface by John H. Finley, L.H.D.

New York
P. J. Kenedy & Sons
1920
Copyright, 1920, by
P. J. Kenedy & Sons, New York
Printed in U.S.A.

DEDICATION

THIS MODEST WORK OWES ITS
PUBLICATION TO THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF

PRESIDENT ABRAM R. BRUBACHER

AND

DEAN HARLAN H. HORNER

OF THE STATE COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS, ALBANY, N.Y.

WHERE MANY PLEASANT HOURS WERE PASSED IN
DELIVERING THESE LECTURES. TO THESE FRIENDS
AND TO THE STUDENT-BODY OF THE COLLEGE THE
AUTHOR HAS THE HONOR OF DEDICATING THIS BOOK

PREFACE

I stand as does the reader at the entrance to this book which I have not
as yet entered myself. I have before me the journey through the Inferno
and Purgatorio, into Paradise, with a new companion. I have made the
journey before many times with others, or with Dante and Virgil alone,
but I know that I shall enjoy especially the companionship and comment
of one with whom I have had such satisfaction of comradeship in our
journey as neighbors for a little way across this earth. I invite
others, and I hope they may be many, to make this brief journey with
us, not because I know specifically what Dr. Slattery will say along
the way, but because whatever he says out of his deep and reverent
acquaintance with the Divine Comedy will help us all who follow hi