The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-10
PROF CURRELL
AT SEMINARY.
Appears Before Cultured Au-
dicncc OF Students and Rich
rnond People.
LITERARY TYPES OF SATAN
Speaker Comments all Wide
spread Lack Of Belief III
4. Personal Devil.

Frofessor w s Currell, Of Wnsh-
.ngton and lee University. dellvere"
s his second lecture at Union 'rheologicai
seminary last night. the subject peihs
Tonnyson,s "Princcss" DIR, Cnrrell is
d graceful speaker, and was greeted
botl, last night and on the night pre-
yious with a cultured audiences maze
up Of people from the community ana
from Richmond.
Il DR. Currcll introduced his remarks
last night by saying that the most
profound of the poems OF Tennyson
was the in Memoriam; tile most am
bilious. THE ldyils of u King and the
most fascinating. the Princess lis
told his audience what is known OF
e the circumstances under which the
poem was written; of the poets en-
Eagement to Miss Solmond, and her
fathers opposition to the match. on
the ground that n poet would never
be able to support her.
The ideal character of the Princess
which runs through the poem Is drawn
from Tnnnyson's vision OF the woman
to2whom he was engaged, and whom
ton OF the Princess WAS issued IN 1S47.
and was followed with a later issue In.
1S4S, and in 1850 the poet added what
are known as the interpolary songs,
key to the whole poem. DR.. Currell
recommends the complete edition pub
Slisllcd in 1853. believing all the cdi-
lions to be good.
in detail. and translated its meaning,
giving the idea as Of seven college,
boys on holiday, and the parts taken
by each in leading up to the climax
,ention to the passage on noble woman
hood rs the key to this part of the.
poem. speaking of 1t as modern fancy
mixed with ancient vaor.'
n ], t.a II,
of the poem as decidedly the most fas-
cinating one produced by Tennyson,
and said that Tennyson had himself ex-
pressed the opinion that this was his
best production.
Three Types of Satan.
On Friday night DR.. currell's subject
in the course OF which he discussed
the views Of Satan advanced by three
Inferno. Millions Paradise Lost and
5Goethc's Faust.
Dante's idea of the Inferno, that Of
n descending spiral which becomes
smaller and smaller, having. different
grades of sinners in It's different con-
3volutions, with satan at the bottom
sDante's idea was that satan was the
originator OF evil and that all sin
flowed back to him.
Millions type of satan describes the
49,
evil IN heaven, satan's rout and his
ran into molten lake in hell; his
plot to wreah his vengeance against
man, and his. calling together the am
gels that had fallen with him. Milton
+ pictures satan as a degenerate, Dante
$conceivlng him as being punished
others. 40 p'''i'shlhs
Goethe's idea of Satan was as an
elegant materialistic. tIonalistlc SORT
/. OF gentleman. something after the
d cynical man OF the world of TODAY
4 fitsceptical and Indifferent. snecrinr ~
inc weakness of his brothers.
pr: Currell closed by saying that ho
had inquired from number Of peopie
5 ihs1 al ana Two, women Of intelligence and
y, personal devil and in eternal pun
d 1shment The speaker closed with a
strong appeal to the young men of the.
seminary, one day going out to preach.
s 70 emphasize the slnfulness of sin, and
not sugar-coat the idea OF hell with
some vague, meaningless description Of
the hereafter.
Dr. Currell will lecture to the grad
Snating class of the Richmond High
o'clock