"When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements."

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

— John Milton