[Milton-L] Milton Exonerated by University College in London

[Rodney C. Wilson]

I have to pass this one on!

Two evenings ago prior to bedtime, I was reading Milton's treatise on divorce. The next morning, first thing I encountered at cnn.com was an article titled: "Study: Bad Marriage Could Damage Heart." 

Milton's 7th argument for liberalized divorce laws was precisely this: "...whereof when they see themselves deprived by meeting an unsociable consort, they ofttimes resent one another's mistake so deeply that long it is not ere grief end one of them. When therefore this danger is foreseen, that the life is in peril by living together, what matter is it whether helpless grief or wilful practice be the cause [of demise]?" 

Milton is exonerated. The article is here: 

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/10/08/bad.marriage.heart.ap/index.html

Rodney Wilson
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