Note 4 — AN INQUIRY INTO THE INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL CAUSES UPON THE MORAL FACULTY. DELIVERED BEFORE THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, ON THE 27TH OF FEBRUARY, 1786.
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Milton seems to have been of this opinion. Hence, after ascribing repentance to Satan, he makes him declare,
“Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost, Evil, be thou my good.”—— Paradise Lost, Book IV.