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      <name><![CDATA[John Milton]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In <em>Areopagitica</em>, John Milton delivers a finely-honed argument in opposition to the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensing_Order_of_1643">Licensing Order of 1643</a>, which restored strict censorship laws to England. Milton relies primarily on classical references; indeed, the title is an allusion to the Areopagus, a hill in Athens and the name of a council...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59832614">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most eloquent and convincing attacks on censorship ever written. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant pamphlet in defense of free speech.  Some of my favorite quotes include:<br/><br/>&quot;I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21631848">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 05 12:55:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens gave a wonderful speech and participated in a most excellent debate on freedom of speech which I've listened to/watched recently in which he referenced this text.  I like Hitch, I like Milton, therefore I must read this text.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 18 05:37:50 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, Milton. There's so much here to sink your teeth into. You just have to really want to work for it, and I think I'm past that point. Maybe one of these days I'll reread.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 10 16:37:24 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This guy is the apologist for freedom of the press. An LSE Public Lecture Tribute to the late Roger Silverstone is the inspiration.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Milton's rant against censorship in 17th century England.  It's wonderful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A generally eloquent railing against literary censorship. Milton arguing that people have the right and responsibility to make their own moral choices after having gleaned all information available, not simply what the regulating bodies see fit for public consumption. ]]></body>
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    <review id="13117062">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the first anti-censorship tracts. A must-read for anyone unsure about the place of &quot;bad&quot; books in society. Lots of great ideas about the value of books and a community of free thinking and expression.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of Milton's prose texts that has some autobiography in it, which makes it even more interesting than it already is.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This tract will blow your mind if you have read Paradise Lost, and you take the time to read it carefully.]]></body>
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    <review id="13046086">
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh Milton. Even your letters pleading for money are interesting.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 27 11:46:09 -0800 2009</date_added>
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