‎William Blake's Critique of the Enlightenment

Описание: To Blake, Newton represents the epitome of what he saw change in the world through the Age of Enlightenment.
It is thus unlikely that Blake was aware of Newton’s Christianity and occult practices, but perhaps this would have contributed to his attempt to unite science with the mystical.
Yes despite, Blake’s critique of Enlightenment materialism, he does attempt to unite science with the mystical.
Again, this symmetry which runs throughout Blake’s work.
Not being anti-science but understanding where physics and metaphysics dissect.
The Atoms of Democritus And Newtons Particles of light Are sands upon the Red sea shore.
William Blake
In defence of empiricism, Blake insisted that knowledge can be acquired only through experience and not at all by the deductions of the reasoning power.
In the final apocalypse, Bacon and Newton and Locke appear in the heavens as the greatest representatives of science, among the innumerable chariots of the Divine, counterbalancing Milton and Shakespeare and Chaucer.
The innumerable Chariots of the almighty appeared in Heaven And Bacon & Newton & Locke, & Milton & Shakespeare & Chaucer A Sun of blood red wrath surrounding heaven on all sides around.
William Blake
Blake repeatedly described scientific formulations as creations, fictions, allegories, abstractions, or non-entities, which oftentimes led to delusions respecting a physical reality of mechanical determinism.
Thus Blake breaks with science when it attempts to define what it cannot, through a false faith in reductivism.
Which is of course, anti-science in itself.
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