The Colonization of Old Books
by Bryce Rogers (June 2012)
This Weltanschauung, though radically different from our implicit ontology, is, in a certain respect, beautiful: all of creation, for Milton, exists in an order of degree that increases in value the higher it rises. Thus, in Paradise Lost, the angel Raphael describes to Adam the upward process of all nature:
Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves
More airy, last the bright consummate flower
To vital spirits aspire, to animal,
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