...excluded from our schools, it being " the end of learning to repair the ruins of the fall, by teaching to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him and obey him;" that, therefore, the General Assembly reaffirms its approval, so often expressed in...

...repair the ruins of our first ! • vents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that i imwledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we !.; .y the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, v. :.ich being united to the heavenly grace...

...end of learning," says the great Milton, "is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by requiring to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him." But what a mass of false perceptions, false judgments, and false principles, in...

...Erskine says but little, is undoubtedly that of Milton as defined to Master Hartlib, "the end" of which " is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." Though an ordinary economical education cannot fail to be highly useful to the Jadejas, it is only...

...serious poet who valued books to the extraordinary degree that he believed that "the end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright."1 And, for Milton, to know God aright, to be learned and pious, is not only holiness, it is...

...Baconian optimism in the potential of method to reverse the effects of the fall: "The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright." We attain knowledge of God by studying in ascending order the works of nature and humanity. The second...

...harmonious relationship to each other because he sees them in relation to the true end of knowledge: "to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him." With this end, the root of all true knowledge, Adam is able to distinguish the greater good from the...

...learning," he declared, "is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright ... as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true...to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection."'2 Only at the very last moment is the humanist confidence in the redemptive capacity of...

...Monday morning.105 John Milton, like others before him, had no doubts that 'the end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him'.106 It must be remembered, too, that these schools existed in a recently Protestantised nation,...

...skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war" — and necessary "to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright."-1 Like Erasmus and Sir Thomas More, the Americans would have the young take from Plutarch,...