robo-centred, to carry out the behests of the new vision. However, in 1709 Bishop Berkeley had published A New Theory of Vision , which revealed the lopsided assumptions of Newtonian optics. Blake, at least, had understood the Berkeleyan critique and had restored tactility to its prime role as agent of unified perception. Today artists and scientists alike concur in praising Berkeley. But his wisdom was lost on his age that was wrapped in “single vision and Newton’s sleep.” The hypnotized patient carried out the behests of the abstract visual control. Polanyi observes (p. 71): A self-regulating market demands nothing less than the institutional separation of society into an economic and political sphere. Such a dichotomy is, in effect, merely the restatement, from the point of view of society as a