...of " mischievous and libellous books," and could not bring himself to contemplate the toleration of Popery and open superstition, " which as it extirpates...religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate ; provided first that all charitable and compassionate means be used to win and gain the...

...of " mischievous and libellous books," and could not bring himself to contemplate the toleration of Popery and open superstition, " which as it extirpates...religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate ; provided first that all charitable and compassionate means be used to win and gain the...

...more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian: that many be tolerated rather than all compelled. I mean not tolerated Popery and open superstition, which, as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable...

...dogma and paltry aims." But Milton finds a stumbling block to toleration in popery, which, he says, " as it extirpates all religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpated " ; and Taylor holds that while mere opinion, however erroneous, is to be tolerated, yet when the doctrines...

...more prudent, and more Christian — that many 'be ' €oleratecTT>i570 rather than all compelled. I mean not tolerated Popery, and ^-- open superstition, which, as it extirpates air religions and cml supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable...

...liberty, for even Milton's mind is swathed with some of the prejudices of his time. He will not tolerate Popery and open superstition," which, as it extirpates...religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpat, provided first, however, that all charitable and compassionat means be used to win and regain...

...passing of the ' Test Act,' 1673. Milton had expressed himself to the same effect in ' Areopagitica': ' I mean not tolerated Popery and open superstition,...religious and civil supremacies so itself should be extirpat, provided first that all charitable and compassionate means be used to win and regain the...

...more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian, that many be tolerated, rather than ail compelled. I mean not tolerated Popery and open superstition; which, as it extirpates ail religions and civil suprcmacies, so itself should be extirpate — provided tîrst that ail charitable...

...* There is another passage in which he expressly excludes the Romanist and the Freethinker : — " I mean not tolerated Popery and open superstition, which, as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate —provided, first, that all charitable...

...argument made no provision for it, he found it necessary dogmatically to provide for one conception. "I mean not tolerated Popery and open superstition,...civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpated." While Milton thus fell short of an unlimited intellectual toleration he yet furnished an immortal statement...