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Critique of Pure Reason

No real reason for this blog, I just felt like it:

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau:

Mock on, mock on: ’tis all in vain!

You throw the sand against the wind,

And the wind blows it back again.

And every sand becomes a Gem,

Reflected in the beam divine;

Blown back they blind the mocking Eye,

But still in Israel’s paths they shine.

The Atoms of Democritus

And the Newton’s Particles of Light

Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,

Where Israel’s tents do shine so bright.

—-Wm. Blake

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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