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  • ...cruel works Of many Wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic, Moving by compulsion each other; not as those in Eden, which, Wheel within wheel, in freedom revolve, in harmony and peace.
    • – Blake, Jerusalem

cogs tyrannic

20 Dec 2022 - 23 Aug 2026
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    • An intriguing phrase from Blake. The meaning is quite clear, he is referring to the physical cause-and-effect universe of enlightenment materialism. A world in which everything is pushed around. Contrasting is the "wheel within wheel" world:
    • I turn my eyes to the schools and universities of Europe And there behold the Loom of Locke, whose Woof rages dire, Wash'd by the Water-wheels of Newton: black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation: cruel works Of many Wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other, not as those in Eden, which, Wheel within wheel, in freedom revolve in harmony and peace.