Sin 1057 "What is the Unpardonable sin? asked the lime-burner…the sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God and sacrificed everything to its own mighty claims…unshrinkingly, I accept the retribution." Hawthorne
Sin 1064 "…he was now a cold observer, looking on mankind as the subject of his experiment, and, at length, converting man and woman to be his puppets, and pulling the wires that moved them to such degrees of crime as were demanded for his study." Hawthorne
Sin 1065 " Oh, Mother Earth…who art no more my mother, and into whose bosom this frame shall never be resolved; oh, mankind, whose brotherhood I have cast off, and trampled thy great heart beneath my feet!" Hawthorne
Sin 176 "How can we tell when a sin we have committed has been pardoned? By the fact that we no longer commit that sin." Rabbi Bunam of Pzysha. c. 1800. Gross, ed. Oxford
Sin 183 "The search of an investigator for the unpardonable sin—he at last finds it in his own heart and practice." Hawthorne Oxford
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