What John Milton thinks about journalism

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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 readingTruth must keep flowing or it sickens into conformity and tradition

   Their wordsTruth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

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