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* 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 :