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The Garden of Liberty | A Symbol of Revolution (Milton, the English Civil War & American Revolution)

In honor of July 4th, I thought I’d make a Revolutionary video. We begin with the English Civil War, in which the writer and poet John Milton played an important part in the cause of the Common Wealth of England by defending principles of liberty, popular sovereignty, and limited government. But it was his greatest work, Paradise Lost, that had perhaps the most powerful ongoing political influence. Attempting to tell the story of the world in microcosm, Milton’s epic of the fall of man makes liberty fundamental to human nature. A century later Milton’s writings, the drama of the garden of Eden not least among them, would go on to influence colonial Americans, including the philosophy of American founders such as Adams, Jefferson, Madison, who along with George Washington were all (surprisingly?) avid gardeners in their personal lives and strong advocates of agriculture in their political lives. As a symbol, the liberalism of the Original Garden meant that colonial cries for liberty were not merely the pangs of discontents, but the outworking of the grand cosmic story. Milton establishes the agenda of liberty not just in an adolescent desire to do whatever one wants, but firmly within the framework of the grand meta-narrative of mankind. As a pragmatic instrument, the garden proved itself to be essential in securing the external conditions of a liberal society. If we want to understand free societies, how they work, and how they can CONTINUE to work, we have to look to the garden, symbolically and practically. SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Instagram:   / empire_of_the_mind   Facebook:   / empire-of-the-mind-102111168633434   Patreon:   / empireofthemind   Email: theempireofthemind@gmail.com VIDEOS MENTIONED IN THIS ESSAY The Garden of Man    • The Garden of Man | CULTIVATION is the Mea...   Hell and Heaven Within Us | Paradise Lost & John Milton's Metaphysical Philosophy of Happiness    • Hell and Heaven Within Us | Paradise Lost ...   A LAZY, NON-FORMATTED BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS John Adams: Revolutionary Writings, 1775-1783 edited by Wood John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose edited by Hughs Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book annotated by Betts Thomas Jefferson: Writings edited by Peterson Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf Oxford Handbook of Milton, edited by McDowell and Smith Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose edited by Kaplan WEBSITES Revolution Wilson, A. 2019. Revolution. In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (eds) F. Stein, S. Lazar, M. Candea, H. Diemberger, J. Robbins, A. Sanchez & R. Stasch. http://doi.org/10.29164/19rev https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/en... Revolution Classical And Christian Conceptions https://science.jrank.org/pages/11147... American Revolution Two Founders, One Book https://exhibits.stanford.edu/america... Tanner, John S., and Justin Collings. "How Adams and Jefferson Read Milton and Milton Read Them." Milton Quarterly 40, no. 3 (2006): 207-19. Accessed June 28, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24465010. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24465010 (Re) Reading Milton https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a... Milton Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. ""PARADISE LOST" AND MILTON'S POLITICS." Milton Studies 38 (2000): 141-68. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26395791.