For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
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"For what is a city but men? And what is a man, if he be not a rational creature?"
"For what can war, but acts of war still breed, Till injur'd truth from violence be freed?"
"New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large."
"Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, and love with awe the invisible King."
"To be more known, to be more loved, to be more praised, to be more admired, to be more sought after, to be more followed, to be more magnified, to be more glorified, to be more adored, to be more wors…"
English poet whose Paradise Lost (1667) is the canonical English epic, written while blind during the Restoration after his service to Cromwell's Commonwealth. Closely associated with Andrew Marvell (Commonwealth poet and friend who protected Milton at the Restoration). For an intellectual contrast, see King Charles II's Restoration court, the courtly, sexually-libertine, theater-reopened world of 1660s London — Milton wrote Paradise Lost as a defeated Republican; the Restoration culture around him celebrated everything his Commonwealth had banned. The cleanest 'losing side writes the masterpiece' moment in English literature — Paradise Lost's Satan is freighted with the political defeat of the regicides Milton served.
Areopagitica (While profound, the elaborate metaphor and almost medicinal description of books can be seen as witty in its earnestness)
Date: 1644
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