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Donne rejected it: he would not blame those who died of plague. He refused to speculate. He said in his sermons that a plague could not ‘give a reason how it did come’. It was ‘not only incurable, uncontrollable, inexorable, but undisputable, unexaminable, unquestionable’.
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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