{"id":880,"date":"2021-10-28T13:56:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T19:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amblesideschools.org\/?p=880"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T22:07:33","slug":"on-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amblesideschools.org\/on-providence\/","title":{"rendered":"On Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;true&#8221; custom_padding_t=&#8221;30&#8243; custom_padding_b=&#8221;30&#8243; row_hide_sm=&#8221;yes&#8221; row_hide_md=&#8221;yes&#8221; row_hide_xs=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1630864580219{background-color: #faf5eb !important;}&#8221;][vc_column]<div class=\"templatera_shortcode\"><div class=\"container-fluid row_section vc_row_cp_lr_15 vc_row_cp_t_0 vc_row_cp_b_0\"><div  class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_column-gap-15 rdy_vc_row-o-equal-height rdy_vc_row-flex 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It is difficult to see clearly when those who are not my people are wailing and gnashing their teeth. It is difficult to know the truth when the algorithms controlling my 24\/7 newsfeed are ordered to confirm what I already believe, not to challenge it; to escalate emotional intensity, not to bring wisdom and peace.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There is a need for some critical distance, and nothing provides critical distance so well as the reading of old books. None put it better than C.S. Lewis:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books. All contemporary writers share to some extent the contemporary outlook &#8211; even those, like myself, who seem most opposed to it. Nothing strikes me more when I read the controversies of past ages than the fact that both sides were usually assuming without question a good deal which we should now absolutely deny. They thought that they were as completely opposed as two sides could be, but in fact they were all the time secretly united\u2014united with each other and against earlier and later ages\u2014by a great mass of common assumptions. We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth [now twenty-first] century\u2014the blindness about which posterity will ask, &#8220;But how could they have thought that?&#8221;\u2014lies where we have never suspected it&#8230; None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true, they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false, they will aggravate the error with which we are already dangerously ill. The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books. Not, of course, that there is any magic about the past. People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes. They will not flatter us in the errors we are already committing; and their own errors, being now open and palpable, will not endanger us. Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Believing Lewis to be right, we at Ambleside place great importance on the reading of old books, even in the youngest grades. Furthermore, we consider the abandonment of old books to be one of contemporary education\u2019s most egregious failures.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Is it possible that this unwillingness to learn from the wisdom of old books (despite obvious flaws) has left us ill prepared to face the current civic moment?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Of late and with great satisfaction, I have been feeding on Dante Alighieri\u2019s <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Divine Comedy<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Considered one of the world\u2019s greatest works of literature, the <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Divine Comedy<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> is a narrative poem tracing the poet\u2019s allegorical journey down into the depths of hell and up to the pinnacle of highest heaven. The epic is replete with characters drawn from the literature and history of the classical and Christian worlds. It offers an omnibus of human experience, our failures and successes, sins and virtues, intense longings, profound anguish and consummate joys. It also includes something of an <\/span><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">expos\u00e9<\/span><\/i><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of the cruel vagaries of 13<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and 14<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> century Italian politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Today\u2019s Republicans and Democrats are rank amateurs in vitriol compared with that of the Guelphs and Ghibellines. Dante was himself embroiled in the conflict, taking up arms on behalf of the Guelph faction. The defeat of the Ghibellines did nothing to end the civil strife, for the Guelphs promptly divided into two warring factions. This time Dante was on the losing side and condemned to perpetual exile. For the final nineteen years of his life, Dante was forbidden from returning to his beloved Florence. It was during his exile that Dante composed the <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Divine Comedy<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, completing it a year before his death in 1321.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Having lived it, how did Dante come to understand the pernicious vicissitudes of Florentine politics? In the <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Divine Comedy,<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> halfway down the infernal descent, we are given a hint. Dante and his guide, the Roman poet Virgil, pass through the fourth circle of hell, the province of those who \u201cwasted all their light\u201d by either hoarding or squandering the gifts of Lady Fortune.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Now may you see the fleeting vanity of the goods\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 of Fortune for which men tear down\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 all that they are, to build a mockery.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Not all the gold that is or ever was\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 under the sky could buy for one of these<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 exhausted souls the fraction of a pause.<\/span> <i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As the two poets continue towards the fifth circle of hell, the region of the wrathful and the sullen, Dante inquires of his mentor as to the nature of Lady Fortune. In classical mythology, Fortune is a goddess. In the <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Divine Comedy<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, she is the personification of God\u2019s Providence.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cMaster,\u201d I said, \u201ctell me\u2014now that you touch\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 on this Dame Fortune\u2014what is she, that she holds\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 the good things of the world within her clutch?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And he to me: \u201cO credulous mankind,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 is there one error that has wooed and lost you?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 Now listen, and strike error from your mind:\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That king whose perfect wisdom transcends all,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 made the heavens and posted angels on them\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 to guide the eternal light that it might fall\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from every sphere to every sphere the same.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 He made earth\u2019s splendors by a like decree\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 and posted as their minister this high Dame,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the Lady of Permutations. All earth\u2019s gear\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 she changes from nation to nation, from house to house,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 in changeless change through every turning year.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No mortal power may stay her spinning wheel.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 The nations rise and fall by her decree.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 None may foresee where she will set her heel:\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">she passes, and things pass. Man\u2019s mortal reason\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 cannot encompass her. She rules her sphere\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 as the other gods rule theirs. Season by season.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In short, Virgil, personifying the best of human reason, declares that Divine Providence, Dame Fortune, who \u201cby her decree\u201d causes nations to rise and to fall, rules her sphere in accordance with a \u201cperfect wisdom\u201d that \u201ctranscends all\u201d and yet to mortals is inscrutable. For modern man, this is a particularly hard pill to swallow. How dare Providence be in charge! In our self-deluded arrogance, we are far too confident that we know what is best and that we can or at least should be able to control outcomes. We tell ourselves the world should conform to our will, and we become embittered when it does not.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And this is she so railed at and reviled\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 that even her debtors in the joys of time\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 blaspheme her name. Their oaths are bitter and wild.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And yet, Divine Providence is undeterred.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">but she in her beatitude does not hear.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 Among the Primal Beings of God\u2019s joy\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 she breathes her blessedness and wheels her sphere.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As Virgil concludes his discourse, the poets come to the bog swarming with souls \u201csavage with anger, naked, slime-besmutched.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They thumped at one another in that slime<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 with hands and feet, and they butted, and they bit,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 as if each would tear the other limb from limb.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Just beyond the wrathful are found the sullen, who, resentful and joyless in life, refused to welcome the sweet light of the Sun (Divine Illumination). In death, they are buried forever below stinking waters, gargling the words of an endless chant in a grotesque parody of singing a hymn.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2018Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 in the glory of his shining our hearts poured<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 a bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sullen we lie forever in this ditch.\u2019<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 This litany they gargle in their throats<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0 as if they sang but lacked the words and pitch.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Everything in the structure of the <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Divine Comedy <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is intentional. Dante set his discourse on Divine Providence between the infernal regions of those that hoard or squander the goods of this world and that of those who angrily rage or bitterly despair. Perhaps he is telling us that without confidence in the goodness of God\u2019s providential care we are prone to a perverse relationship with the goods of this world, to a fiendish wrath or to a pernicious sullenness.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For our sake, and even more for the children\u2019s sake, let us not be counted among those who wail and gnash their teeth, for we are on a sacred journey. Even if the path takes us through the gates of hell, yet we live in absolute hope. May it never be said of us, \u201cThere goes a one who <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">lacks confidence in a benevolent Divine Providence.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[1] C.S. Lewis, introduction to\u00a0<em>Athanasius: The Incarnation of the Word of God,<\/em>\u00a0trans. by A Religious of C.S.M.V. (New York: Macmillan, 1946), 7.<\/p>\n<p>[2] Excerpts are taken from Dante Alighieri, <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>, translated by John Ciardi. 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