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"What is a big shame?" said the voice of the marquis close behind him. Malcolm started, and almost dropped the volume. "I beg yer lordship's pardon," he said; "I didna hear ye come in. "What is the book you were reading?" asked the marquis. "I was jist readin' a bit o' Milton's Eikonoklastes," answered Malcolm, " a buik I hae hard tell o', but never saw wi' my ain een afore."
Not with John Hales, Cudworth, Whichcote, Nicholas Bernard, Meric Casaubon, nor with any of the men of letters who were churchmen, do we find Milton in correspondence. The interest of religion was more powerful than the interest of knowledge; and the author of Eikonoklastes must have been held in special abhorrence by the loyal clergy.
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