[Milton-L] Justify God?

[Brian Anderson]

But
 
"malt does more than Milton can/to justify God's ways to man."
 
A. E. Housman
 
Brian Anderson
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Dept of English
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The best lack all conviction, the worst are filled with passionate intensity.
                                                                          W. B Yeats

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From: milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu on behalf of Horace Jeffery Hodges
Sent: Wed 10/8/2008 7:52 AM
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Subject: [Milton-L] Justify God?


As everyone knows, Milton gives this reason for composing Paradise Lost:
 

	That to the highth of this great Argument
	I may assert Eternal Providence,
	And justifie the wayes of God to men. [PL 1.24-26]
	 
	(Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, October, 2008.)

 
Why does Milton want to justify God's ways to men?
 
Jeffery Hodges
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