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forthcoming). A certain amount of criticalprudery . . has been aroused by account of what More had called the amorous propension of Milton's angels (P.L. VIII, 618-29). The trouble is, I think, that since these exalted creatures are all spoken of by masculine pronouns, we tend, half consciously, to think that Milton is attributing to them a life of homosexual promiscuity. That he was poetically imprudent in raising a matter which invites such misconception I do not deny; but real meaning is certainly not filthy, and certainly not foolish. As angels do not die, they need not breed. They are not therefore sexed in human sense at all. An Angel is, of course, always He (not She) in human language, because whether male is, or is not, superior sex, masculine is certainly superior gender. C. S. Lewis
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