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Areopagitica Part 2

Areopagitica Part 2

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 In which the origins and nature of book-licensing are examined with a discerning eye, revealing it as a foreign and tyrannical imposition rather than a beneficent law of well-ordered states, and the exercise of reading is extolled as a necessary engagement with both good and evil for the cultivation of true virtue. The discourse further contemplates the impracticality and futility of controlling all human pleasures and pastimes by licensure, advocating instead for temperance, wise education, and moral persuasion as the true bulwarks against corruption.
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