...age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye ..... t A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose...

...and the proper supervision of public utterances in even more jeopardy. Milton is moved to exclaim, "[A]s good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image; but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it...

...recording of it was unprecedented. It brought to the mind of many observers the quotation from Milton; 'He who destroys a good book kills Reason itself, kills the Image of God ... a good book is the precious life blood of a master-spirit'. Sixty years after the Shoah (Holocaust)...

...do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." It is "as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye." Censorship is a "kind of homicide," "sometimes a martyrdom," even "a kind of massacre."162 Milton used...

...have been made about books by two famous Englishmen, Milton and Mr. Winston Churchill. Milton says: "As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who...image; but he who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself."2 In other words, books may be more important to humanity than the people who wrote them. They...