"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

09 December 2023

Happy Birthday, Milton

Faithorne, John Milton, 1670


What should ye do then, should ye suppress all this flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung up and yet springing daily in this city? Should ye set an oligarchy of twenty engrossers over it, to bring a famine upon our minds again, when we shall know nothing but what is measured to us by their bushel?  Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton, born on this day in 1608, from Areopagitica

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