Milton’s use of language to bring the tangible to our mind, while still maintaining a balance of the ephemeral (because how can one really describe heaven, hell, Paradise, and the cosmos with certainty?) is unparalleled. But Knowledge is as food, and needs no lessHer Temperance over Appetite, to knowIn measure what the mind may well contain,Oppresses else with Surfeit, and soon turnsWisdom to Folly, as Nourishment to Wind.Paradise Lost (Book VII, lines 126-130) Just as we must not overindulge in eating food for the stomach, we must restrain ourselves from overindulging in food for the mind as well. In Paradise Lost, when Adam asked to learn about the creation of earth, he asked humbly and stated his purpose for wanting to know- “not to explore the secrets askOf his Eternal Empire, but the moreTo magnify his works, the more we know.” Gustave Dore: “Meanwhile the Tepid Caves and fens and shores, their brood as numerous hatch”.