Citations:paradisean


 * 1881 — Ernestine Rose, A Defence of Atheism, J.P. Mendum, page 8
 * Having thus made man, he placed him (them) in the garden of Eden ... But did these beings, fresh from the hand of omnipotent wisdom, in whose image they were made, answer the great object of their creation? Alas! no. No sooner were they installed in their Paradisean home, than they violated the first, the only injunction given them, and fell from their high estate; and not only they, but by a singular justice of that very merciful Creator, their innocent posterity to all coming generations, fell with them!