* The present volume has employed a mosaic pattern of perception and observation up till now. William Blake can provide the explanation and justification of this procedure. Jerusalem , like so much of his other poetry, is concerned with the changing patterns of human perception. Book II, chapter 34, of the poem contains the pervasive theme: If Perceptive organs vary, Objects of Perception seem to vary: If the Perceptive Organs close, their Objects seem to close also. Determined as he was to explain the causes and effects of psychic change, both personal and social, he arrived long ago at the theme of The Gutenberg Galaxy :