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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