Milton Quote

Blogger won't let me upload photos again this morning, so even though I have some great ones remaining from the trip west, you will have to settle for a Milton quote (as in John Milton author of Paradise Lost, not Milton Bradley creator of Monopoly and other fine board games)that was referenced in World Magazine yesterday.

Here's the quote:

"Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter."

When World Magazine started their blog a few years back, they used this quote to explain why they allowed the free flow of ideas, even off the wall ones, to be part of their blog.

Since Old English is a little demanding, here's how World referenced this quote in this week's magazine:

Lay out the facts. Truly subscribe to John Milton's faith from the 1640's that truth and falsehood should be allowed to grapple, for truth would not lose "in a free and open encounter."

Here's the Hip-hop take of this quote. Ideas, placed on the table and open for discussion, aren't nearly as dangerous as ideas that are forbidden to be discussed because the forbidden idea might be the truth. Okay, so I'm no John Milton....