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Reasoning From Darkness to Darkness, by Anthony Esolen – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing, February 25, 2025

Anthony Esolen is a lecturer, translator, and writer. Among his books are Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture, and Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World, and most recently The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord. He is Distinguished Professor at Thales College. Be sure to visit his new website, Word and Song.

I have been committing Paradise Lost to memory – in emulation of a farmer who lived one big field over from a professor of mine, the medievalist George Kane, when George was a boy in Saskatchewan. Yes, I know what Milton thought of the Catholic Church. But Paradise Lost is still the greatest single poem in English, and I find Milton quite shrewd in his psychological analysis of good and evil, and what moves a presumably intelligent being to do wrong.

I write this because some of the prelates in our Church seem to me to have a childish and simplistic, if not guileful, view of the relationship between what we know or think we know, and what it is right for us to do. …

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