The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-05-12

famous as the inventor of a new brand
of canned chicken, but in Tartarus
continually seeing unsubstantial VI
sions of Mumm's Extra Dry. 1xion,
a nobleman who b a d attempted to
contract an international marriage,
was also one of the most prominent
citizens. He worked in the machine
shop. Worst treated of all was the
unfortunate Tityus, who, like Prone
theus elsewhere, was handicapped by
ball and chain, while vulture re-
peatedly and continuously removed
his appendix. Coming down through
the Christian Era, the Prince of Dark
ness always remains n important
figure. Saints and martyrs vanquish
him: Luther throws his i n k p at
him. Marie Corelli, impressed by the
one-sidedness of all these proceed
ings. writes a book to prove that he
is, in reality, a perfect gentleman and
an Angel of Light. T he re was an
outcry about her book by those who
did not realize that the same thing
had been rather better done before
by Goethe and Milton, Goethe's devil
being perfect gentleman and Mil
} toms an Angel of Light.
OF Milton's drawing of the char
acter, there is much to say. Least ofall
the epic poets in delineation of their
characters, it is singular that in the
person of Satan the great P urit a n
2 should have found his noblest hero.
AS Taine v cry keenly observes, in
the speeches of the f "a | e n Lucifer
there is an echo of Hampden's def
ance of Charles l. The second book
Y of Paradise Lost, intended to be sub.
y ordinate to the res t of the po m
@ dominates it, just as Dantes hel
!, overshadows his purgatory and para
disc. 1t is an anti-climax to assis
;, at the Puritan housekeeping OF Adam
:, and Eve, after such lines as these
> which Satan addresses to his fellow
conspiratorsafter they have been cas-
= out of heaven together:
= rs this the region, this the soil, tn
- cline,
Said then the lost Archangel, thi
- the seat
- - That we must change for heaven
" ~ this mournful gloom
- " For that celestial light? Be it Sc
' since he
e Who now is sovran can dispos
and bid
. :, What shall be right farthest frol
- him is best,
u !: Whom reason hath equaled, for(
!. hath made supreme
:; Above his equals. Farewell, hal
ho py fields,
=, M Where JOY forever dwells. Hai
i i horrors! hail,
:. Internal world! and h ou, pr
"a foundest hell,
~ Receive thy new possessor-
who brings
- A mind not to be changed by pla
or time.
~ ~ The mind is it's own place, and
~ itself
i Can make heaven of hell, a b.
~ of heaven.
What matter where, if ! be ST
:. the same,
III III And what ! should be, all but |,
.a. than he
=" Whom thunder hath made great
Here at least
~ e. We b al be free; the Almigl
hath not built
Here for his envy, will not DIR
y, us hence:
has Here we may reign secure: and
y my choice,
!, To reign isworth ambition, thor
L. M in hell;
!. =. Better to reign i'll hell than Sc
az in heaven"
III 1 There, gentlemen, speaks the VIC
wv wv of revolt more clearly in Milton Il
,an ,a,' in all the atheism of Byron and 81
M a. ley, all the self worship of Vic
III w Hugo. 1t is the apotheosis of l.
eaa eo fer, Son of the Morning; his nea1
~ I approach to respectability; a stag
,ne his chequered career at which we
aus almost appreciate his point OF vi
welt, wy - ANc1,or
men
tons
r d. Wade Ellis, who has been sele'
+ the by the President to keep Ohio in
as to Republican column in the next
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