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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