Wonder Land

Daniel Henninger's Wonder Land rocks every Friday, and is always on the free site.
Today, he goes back to Milton and a look at Evil that doesn't comport with our modern ideas.

But evil on itself shall back recoil
And mix no more with goodness, when at last
Gather'd like scum, and settl'd to itself
It shall be in eternal restless change
Self-fed and self-consumed; if this fail
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness
And earth's base built on stubble.--John Milton, 1634