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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 218 Milton's Paradise Lost, Bk IX, Pt XXI, "Temptation of Eve A"
Description: Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk IX, Pt XXI, “Temptation of Eve Pt A”In the preface to Book IX, Milton presents the following abstractAdam at last yields, the serpent finds her alone: his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking; with much flattery extolling Eve above all other creatures. Eve, wondering to hear the serpent speak, asks how he attained to human speech, and such understanding, not till how; the serpent answers that, by tasting of a certain tree in the garden, he attained both to speech and reason, till then void of both...