The Legacy of William BlakewithJames Tunney

…But I believe he was standing for the individual person and he was standing for the idea that only the individual person can bring forward the change. Although people will say he was a radical activist in this sense and he was certainly around the circle with Mary Wollstonecraft and he illustrated a child's book for her. He was around Thomas Payne. His publisher, Johnson, was a Unitarian and very, very active in promoting revolutionary literature. But I believe that he came to the conclusion that society couldn't develop unless the individual went on that journey of spiritual evolution. Absent that, nothing could work in the long term. He had a very clear view of the significance of spiritual evolution.…

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