...utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure . . . Since, therefore, the knowledge and survey of vice...manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason ? This, in Milton's judgement, is the moral benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read (306-15)....

...was an obstacle to the use of reason, which alone should winnow fact from opinion to establish truth: "The knowledge and survey of vice is in this world...of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the conf1rmation of truth, . . . [that we must read] all manner of tractates."29 Controversy, Milton dared...

...what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? . . . Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is...less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity that by reading all manner of tractats, and hearing all manner of reason? And this is the benefit which...

...86. 38. See, eg, Areopagitica (passim; eg, "the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world . .. necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and...the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth," 729). This idea, a form of the more general notion offelix culpa, finds further reflection in 1.2.148-51...

...have to be a snap decision. You would not like to be told what those conclusions ought to be. Since... the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world...manner of tractates and hearing all manner of reason. John Milton, English writer, 1644 I Reaching agreement Censorship issues are complicated. They arouse...

...mankind know good. Mankind is rational and, with God at its side, can separate the good from the evil. Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is...manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason. (Milton, 1644/1971, p. 21) Milton's advice has little to do with truth seeking in political or secular...

...useful in that "knowledge and survey of vice is. . . so necessary to the constituting of human vertue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with Icsse danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity then by reading all manner of tractats, and...

...these passages, than you can use the answers at the back of the book to halp you to understand them. 1 'Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice...necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanmng of error to the confirmation of trutn, how can we more safaly, and with less danger, scout...

...these passages, then you can use the answers at the back of the book to halp you to understand them. 1 'Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice...this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtus, and the scanmng of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more sataly, and with less...

...through the cave of Mammon and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is...the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning [ie, the taking the measure] of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely and with...