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“WE ARE THE RATS’*
As therfore the state of man now is; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledg of evil? . . . Since therfore the knowledg and survey of Vice is in this world 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 less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of Tractats, and hearing all manner of Reason. And' this is the benefit which may be had of Books promiscuously read. —John Milton: “Areopagitica.**
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24908, 22 June 1946, Page 5
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105MINUTE Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24908, 22 June 1946, Page 5
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