Word: areopagitica
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...general charge of the contest, as one of the closest and most successful yet witnessed, the speeches varied in their subject matter from Lincoln's Second Inaugural to T. E. Eliot's Christmas Sermon from Murder in the Cathedral. The winning selections were excerpts from the "Areopagitica" of Milton and from the Book of Revelations...
Haskell Grodberg '44, the first competitor, will deliver excerpts from "The Funeral Speech of Pericles" by Thusydides, while Nathaniel Laurist '43, will give excerpts from Milton's "Areopagitica...
...that the power to tax was the power to destroy, the Deutsch brief quoted the late great Justice Holmes's observation that "a page of history was worth a volume of logic," traced the sorry history of newspaper taxation. He began in 1644 with John Milton's Areopagitica-A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, caught Queen Anne levying the first taxes against newspapers, discovered that the American Revolution "really began in 1765" when the first batch of newspaper duty stamps was shipped out to the Colonies from England, deduced that the Louisiana...
...whom Washington press correspondents are said to have christened "Nervous Nellie" should read and take courage from the words of Milton almost three centuries ago in the Areopagitica: "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter...
...persuasive ancient champion, Plato, fails to convince the reader of today that it is possible to legislate virtue into a populace. The medieval Inquisition tried in vain to keep religion in the hearts of men by the most cruel machinery of censorship the world has ever seen. Milton's "Areopagitica" gave the answer of a new civilization to this deadening philosophy...