...according to Milton's image, "are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous Dragons teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men" (492). In this analogy, as in the analogy to the vial, there is the implication that books are like...

...do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." It is "as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye." Censorship is a "kind of homicide," "sometimes a martyrdom," even "a kind of massacre."162 Milton used...

...have been made about books by two famous Englishmen, Milton and Mr. Winston Churchill. Milton says: "As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who...image; but he who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself."2 In other words, books may be more important to humanity than the people who wrote them. They...