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John Milton: Party of the Devil

Art of Darkness

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The Importance of the Intellectual Game

In 1628, Milton starts to learn how serious the stakes in the intellectual game can actually be. He would eventually charge the universities with bringing students to quote a hatred of learning and making people who could not think for themselves susceptible to tyranny. As we're heading towards graduation, for brief time, he was going to go to church. His entire class at Cambridge became ministers except for him. And that's pretty much it.

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