...God, Creator wise, that peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine, create at last This noveltie on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill...Feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind? — Milton's Adam, upon learning of Eve's perfidy, Paradise Lost 9.889-95 The Stranger's extreme interest...

...creation in clay comes Adam's blaming Eve for their plight. Why, he asks, could God not have filled "the World at once / With Men as Angels without Feminine, / Or find some other way to generate / Mankind?" (ll. 892-895). He Knew He Was Right includes a Satan figure, too, within its pattern: Colonel Osborne....

...O why did God, Creator wise, that peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine, create at last 890 This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the \Vorld at once With Men as Angels without Feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind? this...

...bumper-sticker morality: O why did God, Creator wise, that peopl'd highest Heav'n 80 With Spirits Masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect...way to generate Mankind? this mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall, innumerable Disturbances on Earth through Female snares, And...

...just number found. O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With Spirits Masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect...Feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind? . . . Eve's supplication is the turning point for the human couple. She humbly admits her fault and...