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Excerpts from "There Is No Natural Religion," part two, by William Blake

Man’s perceptions are not bound by organs of perception; he perceives more than sense can discover. Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. The bounded is loathed by its possessor: the same dull round, even of the universe, would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.

Application: He who sees the infinite in all things sees God. He who sees the ratio (reason) only sees himself only. Therefore God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.

Excerpts from "There is No Natural Religion," part one, by William Blake

The argument: Man has no notion of moral fitness but from education. Naturally he is only a natural organ subject to sense… Man’s desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. The desires & perceptions of man, untaught by anything but organs of sense, must be limited to objects of sense.

Conclusion: If it were not for the poetic or prophetic character the philosophic & experimental would soon be at the ratio of all things, and stand still, unable to do other than repeat the same dull round over again.