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Chillingworth, William
(Chillingworth 1638: vi.56 ). Chillingworth saw Knott 's position as resting on two fundamental confusions - that of infallibility with authority, and of infallibility with certainty. Not all certainties are the same - indeed two quite separate kinds need to be distinguished. Metaphysical certainty belongs to direct revelations from God, to self-evident propositions and their logical consequences, and to the direct testimony of the senses. Faith cannot have this kind of certainty - if it could...
- Le personnage de CHILLINGWORTH Roger Nathaniel Hawthome
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Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Essay
and her husband is supposed to meet her there. She finds comfort in the person of Minister Arthur Dimmesdale, and let herself be tempted by an act of passion, and love that gave birth to a « sinful » child. Then Hester has to carry the burden of her shame embodied in the Scarlet Letter, and in Pearl. Hester follows what we can call natural laws : Roger Prynne (aka Chillingworth) is described as old, deformed, and a man of science confine in his books, whereas Hester is young...