...poem. As in Areopagitica where Milton accepts the nonexistence of innocence for humankind ("Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather," 12) and where recovery is prepared for by trial ("that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by...

...and continually tested in trials, where contrary experiences and opinions are confronted. "Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." Books are most appropriate means "to the trial of virtue...

...unassayeoV Alone, without exterior help sustained?" (DC, 335—336) In Areopagitica Milton says that "we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather." But "which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary." "Blank vertue" is not a pure...

...out of the race where that immortal garland0 is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation...

...the notion of "a blank vertue" with "an excrementall [ie external] whitenesse," Milton asserts that "that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary" (YP 2:515-16). including trial which involves active engagement with evil and inner struggle with temptation....

...except in the garden's all too temporary enclosures. Of course Milton similarly recognizes that because "we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather," his "true warfaring" or "wayfaring" Christian must now race for the "immortal garland" in a dust and...

...persistence and hopeful purification of original sin through a related principle of contrariety: 'Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary' (my emphasis) (2:515). Though very closely aligned, Milton's tropes of contiguity and contrariety,...

...mortal gift. As that other great English humanist, Platonist, and Calvinist, Milton, wrote, "Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." [Walter R. Davis, A Map of Arcadia: Sidney's Romance in Its...

...out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for. not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world. we bring impurity much rather: that which puriftes us is trial, and trial is by that which is contrary. John Milton, Complete Poems and Major...

...between ideas.'7 He also employs military images in describing this competitive process: "Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...us is Triall, and Triall is by what is contrary." He later describes these trials as "Wars of Truth."'8 Truth must be tested or else we can have no real...