Creative tension

摘要

In 1809, at 28 Broad Street, Soho, in London, there was an exhibition of paintings by the then-neglected artist William Blake, including "A Subject from Shakspear ... The Horse of Intellect is leaping from the cliffs of Memory and Reasoning; it is a barren Rock: it is also called the Barren Waste of Locke and Newton". Blake loathed reductive science and the mechanized materialism of the Industrial Revolution. His Aristotelian way of thinking has a history dating back to Plato.