fall of man
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Homer told the story of ancient Greece in the “Iliad,” Virgil of Rome in the “Aeneid,” John Milton of the fall of man in “Paradise Lost,” and Alexander Pope of 18th-century England in the “Dunciad.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2017
One can just as well recount a more recent and assuredly secular story of the fall of man.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2017
Despite his heroism, despite all his success at bringing about the fall of man, the former’s actions take place in a universe with definite boundaries.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2016
If Baudelaire leaves you wondering, quietly, whether the fall of man was set in motion by a dropped banana skin, then Bergson’s offering, entitled simply “Laughter,” ushers us toward a more remedial definition.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2015
The fall of man may be greater, in the spiritual sense, than it ever yet has been, for man's will is free.
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
