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

This inquiry will lead us to a deeply-important point in connection with the fall of man.

From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Mackintosh, Charles Henry