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The Seven Nations fled before him: they became what
they beheld.
Blake makes quite explicit that when sense ratios change, men
change. Sense ratios change when any one sense or bodily or
mental function is externalized in technological form:
The Spectre is the Reasoning Power in Man, & when separated
From Imagination and closing itself as in steel in a Ratio
Of the Things of Memory, It thence frames Laws & Moralities
To destroy Imagination, the Divine Body, by Martyrdoms &
Wars. (1)
Imagination is that ratio among the perceptions and
faculties which exists when they are not embedded or outered
in material technologies. When so outered, each sense and