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Evan Thomas, Milton Group8, Milton Group7, Milton Group6, Milton Group5, Milton Group4, Milton Group3, Milton Group2, Milton Group1, Milton Group9, Authors

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For in those dayes Might onely shall be admir'd, And Valour and Heroic Vertu call'd; [ 690 ] To overcome in Battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human Glorie, and for Glorie done

At this time, Archangel Michael is describing, to Adam, the period in which war and conquerors will be viewed as heroic
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