John Milton Quotes About Mankind
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O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
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Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
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