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Excerpt from The Form and Origin of Milton's Antitrinitarian Conception: Inaugural Dissertation Zur Erlangung Der Doktorwuerde Der Hohen Philosophischen Fakultaet Der Grossherzoglich Badischen Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet in Heidelberg
The opinions of'john Milton have as a rule exercised a very positive in?uence upon those who have become acquainted with his works. The excellence of his literary genius, and the ethical and religious strength of his writings have been capable of making men forget the vagaries of his thoughts. His compositions have helped to enhance the common stock of the literary possessions of his nation. Paradise Lost appears to the general reader rather as a history of creation than the sublime imaginings of a master imind. Milton has always stood in the popular conception as {a stronghold of certain truth ah-d orthodoxy; he has been regarded asthe exponent of accepted creed; indeed, Ihe has ibeen as it were a lamp to the feet of the believer.
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