...surely that Milton had in view, when hf said that the end of education was " to repair the ruins or our first parents by regaining to know God aright,...knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him." Effect or It has been a source of continual happiness to me, in my ontheir district, to find the number...

...We must give to the term learning a broad definition, if we accept Milton's statement that its end " is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright;" for this necessarily implies, that we are to study carefully everything relating to the nature of our...

...education in the complete view of it, we may take Milton's magnificent description : ' The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.' He descends by only two steps from this grand generality to Greek and Latin, the first step being '...

...Education, 1664: "The end then of Learning is to repair the ruines of our first Parents by regaining how to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection"; Jaeger notes that...

...Milton's conception of the education of integrity. Indeed, he sees the main purpose of all education to be "to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright." 36 Knowledge, including the prodigious knowledge he himself possessed, was to give strength to the...

...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection."21 A few paragraphs later in Milton's essay we learn what the practical consequences of...

...serious poet who valued books to the extraordinary degree that he believed that "the end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright."1 And, for Milton, to know God aright, to be learned and pious, is not only holiness, it is...

...Baconian optimism in the potential of method to reverse the effects of the fall: "The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright." We attain knowledge of God by studying in ascending order the works of nature and humanity. The second...

...harmonious relationship to each other because he sees them in relation to the true end of knowledge: "to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him." With this end, the root of all true knowledge, Adam is able to distinguish the greater good from the...

...learning," he declared, "is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright ... as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true...to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection."'2 Only at the very last moment is the humanist confidence in the redemptive capacity of...