...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary' (Milton 1927, 13). 13 Dworkin 1996, 201, observes that John Stuart Mill endorsed both [instrumental...

...but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her...

...the Areopagitica where he argues for the necessity of trial for 'the wayfaring Christian': Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary. That vertuc therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation...

...out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her...

...cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." — "That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure." —...

...press in 1644 on the grounds that the knowledge of vice was necessary to the constituting of virtue - 'that which purifies us is trial and trial is by what is contrary'. Or, indeed, the wisdom of the Jews who have never baulked at admitting the perversity of their god...

...creative element of his fiction.10 His reading of the ure test the mettle of humankind through trial — "that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary," in Milton's indelible phrase in Areopagitica. Bailey, in his Dictionnarium, guesses that trial is related...

...poem. As in Areopagitica where Milton accepts the nonexistence of innocence for humankind ("Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather," 12) and where recovery is prepared for by trial ("that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by...

...to he run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we hring not innocence into the world, we hring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is hy what is contrary, That virme therefore which is hut a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and...

...and continually tested in trials, where contrary experiences and opinions are confronted. "Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." Books are most appropriate means "to the trial of virtue and the exercise of truth" (p. 24). The good...