![]() Friedrich Nietzscheįrank Kermode's classic assessment of young Milton as “his father's chief investment” was more prescient than historically accurate. ![]() This man of the bad conscience … apprehends in “God” the ultimate antithesis of his own ineluctable animal instincts he reinterprets these animal instincts themselves as a form of guilt before God (as hostility, rebellion, insurrection against the “Lord,” the “father,” the primal ancestor and origin of the world) … In this psychical cruelty there resides a madness of the will which is absolutely unexampled: the will of man to find himself guilty and reprehensible.
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