Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Great Regulars: I imagine [William] Blake countering

today's Voltaires with a scepticism based not on scorn for science but on his sense that there is a hard-wired propensity to see through, as well as with, the eye, and that this, too, is part of the irreducible, insatiable, magnificent particle collider that is human intelligence.

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: theblogbooks: Poem of the week: Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau

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