Abstract
Why were Milton's contemporaries unresponsive to Areopagitica when liberty of conscience was a topic of popular debate? Comparative examination of less widely recognized contemporary works on the topic reveals that points assumed by Milton received from other writers minute analysis and amplification in an idiom that took nothing for granted. The experiential framework of individual conscience, an entity so apparent to Milton as to require no evidence, is structured with dramatic meticulousness by his contemporaries. From such structuring a crucial step in the development of popular thinking about free conscience may be inferred.
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