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Milton’s Areopagitica

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The Political Uses of Ideology

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Whether or not ideologies could have appeared before the current epoch is a moot point; we know only that they began to have great impact at the same time as the collapse of the ancien régime. It is only at this point in history, when the medieval view of the world had been thoroughly discredited, when monarchy had become corrupt and impotent, when many of the best minds had forsaken religion, when the technical barriers to popular pro-pagandizing had been overcome, that some men could muster the conviction and the power to revolt and attempt to begin the world anew. Only then did ideologies emerge.

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Notes and References

  1. E. Voeglin, The New Science of Politics (Chicago, 1952) chaps. 4–5.

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  2. R. Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity (London, 1907) vol. 1, p. 153.

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  5. Isocrates, Works (London, 1928) vol. 1, pp. ix ff.

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  6. G. Kennedy, The Art of Persuasion in Greece (London, 1963)

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  7. J. Milton, Areopagitica (Oxford, 1886) p. xxx, also p. xxxi for a different reason for citing Isocrates.

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  8. J. Milton, A Second Defence of the English People, in W. E. Gilman, ‘Milton’s Rhetoric: Studies in his Defence of Liberty’, University of Missouri Studies, XIV, 3 (July 1939) 11.

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  9. Ibid., p. 13.

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  10. Milton, Areopagitica, p. 2.

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  11. Ibid.

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  12. Ibid., p. 35.

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  13. Ibid.

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  14. Ibid., p. 37.

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  15. Ibid., p. 50.

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  16. Ibid.

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  17. W. R. Parker, Milton’s Contemporary Reputation (Columbus, Ohio, 1940) pp. 2, 25–6.

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  1. University of Edinburgh, UK

    H. M. Drucker (Lecturer in Politics)

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Drucker, H.M. (1974). Milton’s Areopagitica. In: The Political Uses of Ideology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02096-6_5

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