Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1911-01-11
A Review OF Millions Ideal

can read Mi,ton's writings or con
.eiip!ate MS lie, without being per-
suauea that MS hrst desire wa sthe
freedom, and through that, the happi
ness OF his country" Millions ideal
however, is not outward freedom but
inward freedom. A person may seem
70 be tree but be really in terrible
bondage. man who is a slave to
appetltes, desires and temperament.
must still be slave although he live
III Tree country You, therefore,
VINO wish to remain free, either con
stantly be wise, or as soon as possible
cease to be ,oois; il you think slav-
cry an into cradle evil, learn obedience
to reason and the government Of YOUR
se.ves; and finally bid adieu to your
assertions, your jealousies, -,1r sup
erstit!ons, your outrages, your rapine
and your lust"
Mitcn fe.t that YOU must be good
with good desires, good intentions,
and good deeds il you loved liberty,
otherwise it was not libert. YOU loved
but license to do the evil things that
are prompted by an evil nature. Those
that
"Stil. revolt when truth would set
them free,
License they mean when they crv
Liberty:
For who loves that must first be wise
and good"
he idea that we were created free
runs through Paradise Lost, where
he repeatedly tells us that we are free
moral agents, that God gave us the
power of choosing between good and
evil, (evil and weakness he classes to-
gether) that we know the good bv the
Evil The knowledge OF good is so
invo.ved and interviewer with the
knowledge OF evil, and IN so many cum
ming resemblance hardly to be dis
cerned that those confused seeds which
were imposed upon Psyche as an in
cessant labor to Gull out, and sort
asunder, were not more intermlxed, 1t
was from out the rind OF one apple
tasted that the knowledge Of good and
evil, as two twins cleaving together
teaped forth into the world And
| perhaps this is that doom which Adam
fell into OF knowing good and evil;
that is to say OF knowing good by
evil"
Milto nbelieved that only a good
nation could be iree The wicked one
was as much in bondage as the evil
individual. But when God hath de-
creed servitude on a sinful nation,
! fitted by their own vices for no con-
dition but servile, all estates of gov
eminent are alike unable to avoid it."
| Milton was unfortunate in his mar
ried life He was middle aged man
when he married Mary Powell, seven
teen, girl totally untitled TO be the
companion OF such a man and after a
few months she left him. He wrote
several treatises on Divorce, basing
them on the sentence that what
God hath joined together let no man
put asunder", claiming that God does
not join natures that are not kindred
congenial or sympathetic and as this
is the work OF man, it may be put aside
Augustine Brrell says that il is a
noble and passionate cry for a high
ideal OF married life, which so he ar
gued, had by infexibe laws been
changed into a dropping and discon-
ISOLATE household capacity, without re-
fuge or redemption"
Milton is wholly inconsistent IN this
for when the Powels are in trouble
he takes his wife back and provides
or her and her family. He only llvec
ITO stand approved IN sight OF Goo
Though Worlds
Judged him perverse"
Nj. 7. M.