"The proprietor of a pornographic book shop may be dimly conscious of a debt to the author of Areopagitica, but Milton is the last person he wants to see in his shop."
— David Stove

January 1, 1970

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Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists, Oxford: Pergamon, 1982. Page 54.