The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 472
1 point of the positivism and objectivism of the first periodas the work of the destroyer, of the negative spirit, theDevil. It is a reaction. This explains why MiltonsSatan actually became a hero. Milton was a Protestant,a revolutionist, a subjectivist, and he unconsciously sym-pathised with… … Miltons Satan. (After Dore.) The negativism of the second period is not a mis-take. It was an indispensable condition of the thirdperiod; for it manufactured the tools for a higher andbetter positivism,—criticism. But criticism is insufficientfor positive construction; we must have actual…
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