...to virtue and strength consists in full walking amid both, distinguishing, avoiding, and choosing. " I cannot praise a " fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unexercised and unbreathed, " that never sallies out to see her adversary, but slinks out of " the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not"...

...iitare, and from our Milton, who says: " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, uncxercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the raее where that immortal garland is tobe run for, not without dust and neat." — Areop. He had taken...

...passing the platitudes is any substitute for seeking a better world. Milton wrote in Areopagitica, 'I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not...

...(9:286-87). In a magnificent redaction of Milton's famous defense of a free press in Areopagitica—"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary" (728)—Eve asks Adam, "And what is Faith, Love, Virtue unassay'd / Alone, without exterior help sustain'd?"...

...vibrant debate, acuteness of perception, ingenuity, and self-discipline are the keys to finding truth: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary" (Milton, 1644/1971, p. 20). Spinoza's ultimate goal for mankind was well-being, that enduring joy that...

..."He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures," writes Milton, "and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer...truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian" (728). Milton's virtue conquers in an enduring, not a destructive way. The temperate Christian hero...

...matters is not the number of commandments we obey, but how, and in what spirit, we obey them. John Milton I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not...

...of the reasoned judgment of men and women. Milton could not see the value of truth if it is simply, 'a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not...

...consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasutes, and yer . . . prefer that whieh Is truly berter, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not...

...forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,...