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  • More than that, it was in the divorce writings, with their assault on major assumptions in philosophy and theology, that some more fundamental beliefs emerged in Milton's mind-in particular the heresies of mortalism (the idea that the soul dies with the body until the general resurrection) and its anterior foundation, monism (the idea that everything in the universe is matter of some kind; there is no separation of the material and the immaterial, and no division of the soul and the body).

    Harvard University Press Publicity Blog 2009

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