John Milton:

To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional), this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church; not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.

— John Milton Early Modern

Paradise Lost

Context

Areopagitica

Date / Period

1644

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/608/608-h/608-h.htm

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