Capitolo 15
easily you excuse the sin of the spiritual pride or the deliberate cruelty.
These same Centuries Averages believed besides very sincerely, in the
The divine pardon of sins for that there had been the true repentance
and honest effort to amendment. Abelard and Heloise had been
grievouslies punished, him he had made every reparation that was
possible, its penitence was benevolently presumed, and therefore it
it was not for society to condemn what would mercifully forgive God.
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries didn't have an age of ethic
laxity; ideals and standard and behavior were incommensurably taller
what they had been being for five hundred years, taller than them
both of centuries that it followed the crest of Mediaevalism. It was
however once of the enormous vitality, of throbbing energy that was
continually bursting his/her confinements, and as good personnel's once
the liberty and the liberty of action that it would seem indeed strange to us
in these days of legal limitation and without end and the mitigated inhibitions
from revolt. There were the few formal laws but there was _Custom_ that
it was in himself a supreme law, and there was above all the moral one
law of the Church, establishing his/her great fundamental principles
but leaving details to work out some same life. Behind the
sin of the disposition of Abelard his/her spiritual and intolerable pride, his/her egoism
and his/her egotism, quality that the society to great doesn't recognize
because of their devotion to his/her attractive personality and them
the admiration for his/her intellectual and dazzling gifts. Their idol had
sin, had been punished him wildly, him he was reformed; that was
there were on the question and it it was to an end.
In the light ones the Historia Calamitatum is a consideration that
that is suggested it is subject for serious thought. Written as it
it was of the years after the great tragedy of his/her life, it was a
withdraws that somehow it seems out of fire. We know that during his
the first years in Abelard in Paris were a daring and audacious champion in the