...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are...

...justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as...

...are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in...extraction of that living intellect that bred them" (Areopagitica). The medieval book, sturdily bound to protect its contents from the ravages of time,...

...hundred years ago, John Milton wrote that "books are not absolutely dead things," but "contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." I hope that this book has such potency, the potential to help change things. I hope that it helps us...

...AGES DE LA VIE SELON WILLIAM BLAKE For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason...

...assurance, expressed in his Aereopagitica: books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...extraction of that living intellect that bred them ... a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, enbalmed and treasured up on purpose...

...famous argument against the regulation of publishing, John Milton treats books as pure entities able to "preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." He describes them as "reason itself," the "image of God, as it were, in the eye" (720). Where books...

...tyrant for its uncompensated appropriation of other men's words. In so far as books 'contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are' (Areopagitica, CP, 2, 492), the misappropriation of another's words is, as Milton says in reference...

...not absolutely dead things") and with a traditional Christian term (soul): books "contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." Previewing difficulties to come, however, the next clause breaks with this tradition in equating "soul"...

...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potensie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are...