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Blake, William - And this is the manner of the Sons of Albion in their strength
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William Blake – from the Complete Poems
And this is the manner of the Sons of Albion in their strength
They take the two contraries which are called qualities, with which
Every substance is clothed, they name them good and evil
From them they make an abstract, which is a negation
Not only of the substance from which it is derived
A murderer of its own body; but also a murderer
Of every divine member; it is the reasoning power
An abstract objecting power, that negates every thing
This is the spectre of man; the holy reasoning power
And in its holiness is closed abomination of desolation.
