ABSTRACT
There will (presumably) always be those who prefer ‘single vision’, and who prefer to enjoy a ‘sleep’, whether induced, as Blake implies, by Newtonian modernism, or by any other all-embracing schema. The imposition of constraints can be reassuring; so that, as we have seen in Chapter 4, there is a tendency when external pressures on us are removed, not so much to rejoice as to recoil in horror and in fear. Instead of embracing new-found freedom, we are likely to avoid it, by imposing our own internal constraints. That’s the only way that life seems manageable, liveable.
