Today’s Poem: Science and Poetry

William Blake and the Doctrine of Double Truth

William Blake’s Ancient of Days (Wikimedia Commons)

“The Atoms of Democritus / And Newton’s Particles of light / Are sands upon the Red sea shore / Where Israel’s tents do shine so bright,” William Blake (1757–1827) declared in “Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau,” a poem routinely taken as his rejection of science and Enlightenment reason.

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