text:  How stupendous the art that has disposed and ordered the immensity!--comprehended the complexity of the subject into a clearly harmonized musically proportionate Whole! Unless the Paradise Lost had risen from the soul of Milton as a hymn--unless he had begun to sing as a worshipper with his hands uplifted before the altar of incense the choice of the subject would have been more than bold--it would have been the daring of presumption--an act of impiety