THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION first series Etched about 1788 THE ARGUMENT. Man has no notion of moral fitness but from Education. Naturally he is only a natural organ subject to Sense. I. Man cannot naturally Percieve but through his natural or bodily organs. II. Man by his reasoning power can only compare and judge of what he has already percievd. III. From a perception of only 3 senses or 3 elements none could deduce a fourth or fifth. IV. None could have other than natural or organic thoughts if he had none but organics perceptions. V. Mans desires are limited by his perceptions, none can desire what he has not percievd. VI. The desires and perceptions of man, untaught by any thing but organs of sense, must be limited to objects of sense. CONCLUSION. If it were not for the Poetic or Prophetic character the Philosophic and 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. WILLIAM BLAKE, Symbolical Works
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