But poets like Blake were far ahead of Newton in their 
response to the challenge of the clock. Blake spoke of the need 
to be delivered “from single vision and Newton’s sleep,” knowing 
very well that Newton’s response to the challenge of the new 
mechanism was itself merely a mechanical repetition of the 
challenge. Blake saw Newton and Locke and others as 
hypnotized Narcissus  types quite unable to meet the challenge 
of mechanism. W. B. Yeats gave the full Blakean version of 
Newton and Locke in a famous epigram:

     Locke sank into a swoon;
     The garden died;
     God took the spinning jenny 
     Out of his side.

Yeats presents Locke, the philosopher of mechanical and lineal