...decade of the Restoration, and condemned to the internal exile of his blindness.1 Henceforth I leam, that to obey is best, And love with fear the only...and by small Accomplishing great things, by things deemed weak Subverting worldly strong, and worldly wise By simply meek; that suffering for truth's...

...history. Adam translates this vision into profound but somewhat prosaic lessons in proper conduct: "Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, / And love...observe / His providence, and on him sole depend" (12:561-4). Michael approves Adam's homily, and pledges that subjection of the self to rules of ethical...

...potential causes within oneself: Henceforth I learne, that to obey is best, And love with fear the onely God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend, Mercifull over all his works, with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things,...

..."Unfeared Second Fate": Satan and the Critique of Meliorism, Paradise Lost, Book 2 CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love...to observe His providence, and on him sole depend, ... that suffering for Truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful Death the...

...alternative to true heroism. True heroism, as stated in a memorable passage in Paradise Lost, impels one ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend,...small Accomplishing great things, by things deem'd weak Subverting worldly strong, and worldly wise By simply meek. (12.563-71) This assessment is best...

...which was my folly to aspire. Henceforth I leame, that to obey is best. And love with fear the onely God. to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend. MercifulI over all his works, with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things,...

...'possess a paradise within'. In order to do so, he must learn what Adam learned, what the epic teaches: that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in His presence, ever to observe Hts providence, and on Him sole depend, Merciful over all His works, with good Still overcoming evil,...

...Lost. Sadder but wiser after his visionary preview of human history, Adam confesses that he sees now that "to obey is best, / And love with fear the only God," and the Archangel Michael replies, This having learnt, thou hast attain'd the sum Of wisdom; hope no...

...teaching and judiciously pleasing, always the rhetorician, finally moving the hearer to seek goodness: Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God [...] that suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the...

...angels in heaven, of the reconciliation between Adam and Eve, of Adam's final recital of his lesson: with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things, by things deemd weak Subverting worldly strong, and worldly wise By simply meek; that suffering for Truths sake Is...