...good hook, Who kills a man kills a reasonahle creamre, God's image: hut he who destroys a good hook kills reason itself, kills the image of God. as it were in the eye, Good and evil we know in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparahly; and the knowledge...

...glowing as he did so. Then Mavis devised a new tactic, answering in kind. When he offered the following: As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. —John Milton, Areopagitica Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of...

...prepublication and post-publication censorship: "as good almost kill a man as kill a good book ... he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye."5 Perhaps his main argument is the argument from truth, that by prohibiting publication, the learning...

...resultant process of destabilization, the good would be killed off along with the bad ("he who kills a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye"). The Enlightenment value of rationality—inherited, I have argued, most passionately by Rushdie himself...

...fail to be realized — in short, to develop a feeling for the fate of human affairs. As Milton said, "Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life...

...are said to preserve the extraction of the intellect that bred them, they are again physiologized: Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life...

...chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost Lill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a...burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true,...

...up armed men. And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as lull a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,...earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirir, embalmed 25 and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 'Tis true, no age...

...vulnerable to law. Arguing against restrictive licensing codes, Milton suggests that "unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye."22 In poetic and (later) novelistic envoi, starting at least as early as Chaucer, books are admonished...

...Kilnnnul Burke (1729-97), from Reflection} on the Revolution in France Simon Jenkins, writer and'columnist As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to...