I caught somebody the other day saying that Isaac Newton didn’t go to Cambridge to study literature. He said it with scorn. Really? Well, if you went to Cambridge in Newton’s time, you most certainly did study literature in the ancient languages, and philosophy and theology. That’s what the author of our Hymn of the Week, John Milton, did at Cambrid…
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