William Blake's There Is No Natural Religion
In Blake’s “There is No Natural Religion” he argues about the senses of a human and its capabilities. Blake divided this series of aphoristic declarations and the emblem like designs into two groups of numbered propositions known as “series a” and “series b” In the first series, Blake states basic principles, derived from the philosophy of John Locke, about physical perception, reason, and the limits of knowledge. The second series redefines and confutes the first and argues for the multitude of spiritual perceptions. In the Blake’s series, he states, “Man's perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception. He perceives more than sense (tho' ever so acute) can discover reason or the ratio of all we have already known is not the same that