See archdevil on Wiktionary
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"text": "A spirit of ultraism seems to pervade the whole community. The language of Milton's archdevil \"Evil, be thou my good\" is the creed of modern reformers, or, in other words — anything for a change. What is to come of all this, I have not wisdom even to guess. It is an age of transition and whether you and I live to see the elements of the moral and political world at rest, is, I think, extretmely doubtful.",
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