What John Milton thinks about agency

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English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674); author of Paradise Lost and Areopagitica.

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1. c. 1644

   Our readingGod gave Adam reason, and reason is the freedom to choose

   Their wordsWhen God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.

   ↗Areopagitica (1644)gutenberg.org All 16 from this book