books absolutely dead things, contain a potency life active soul proge — John Milton, Areopagitica

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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

John Milton, Areopagitica

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