Excerpt from Little Masterpieces: John Milton; Selections, Chiefly Autobiographical, From the Pamphlets and Letters, With the Tractate on Education and Areopagitica I have given in full the two best known of Milton's prose treatises, the tract On Edu cation, and the famous Areopagitica, or plea for free speech. Brief preparatory notes accompany each selection in the volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.