John Milton on Society
1608–1674 England
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Hanging in a golden chain
This pendent world, in bigness as a star
Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.
A boundless continent,
Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night
Starless expos'd.
Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot
Which men call Earth.
Comus (1637)
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures rational.
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferr'd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be tak'n from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.