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Page 166
... Hobbes and Milton were agreed . ( Myself , I should regard the people's attitude as rather sensible . ) Milton respected Hobbes's intellect , though the idealist deplored the realist's conclusions . On ' liberty ' , for example ...
... Hobbes and Milton were agreed . ( Myself , I should regard the people's attitude as rather sensible . ) Milton respected Hobbes's intellect , though the idealist deplored the realist's conclusions . On ' liberty ' , for example ...
Page 167
... Hobbes in his view of the idiocy of the people in general ; from this Hobbes - like Shake- speare - drew the correct conclusion , that they were incapable of liberty , or , at any rate , much of it . Fortunately for them , they do not ...
... Hobbes in his view of the idiocy of the people in general ; from this Hobbes - like Shake- speare - drew the correct conclusion , that they were incapable of liberty , or , at any rate , much of it . Fortunately for them , they do not ...
Page 168
... Hobbes answers , ' by making poor people sell their labour to them at their own prices ' . Α No wonder Hobbes , the poor clergyman's son , is more admired by Marxists than is Milton , the son of the successful scrivener who made a ...
... Hobbes answers , ' by making poor people sell their labour to them at their own prices ' . Α No wonder Hobbes , the poor clergyman's son , is more admired by Marxists than is Milton , the son of the successful scrivener who made a ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
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