...how books demean themselves, as well as men ; and thereafter to confine in prison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not...things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be aa active as that soul was whose progeny they are. Nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest...

...vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men. For books are not absolutely dead things, but contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown...

...not the animate, breathing things we were wont to see in some quiet inlet. " For," exclaims Milton, " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...active, as that soul was, whose progeny they are." Does it not wring your heart, dear fellow Bibliophiles, to hear of Chaucer in Websterian spelling ?—of...

...a growing scale. As Milton later proclaimed books, far from being dead things, ' contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are'.4 It was from the 153o's that Erasmus's works began to circulate in English at a time when those...

...it. - attributed to Rabbi Eliezer For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. - John Milton, Areopagitica Preface This is a book about the fundamental orality of scripture; that...

...how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay...

...idea expressed by Milton in Areopagitica, as things 'not absolutely dead' that 'do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are, nay ... do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred...

...eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve...

...hundred years ago, John Milton wrote that "books are not absolutely dead things," but "contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." I hope that this book has such potency, the potential to help change things. I hope that it helps us...

...eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve...