The Roommate From Hell

357: Isaiah answer’d, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception;

358: but my senses discover’d the infinite in every thing,

359: and as I was then perswaded, & remain confirm’d;

360: that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

361: Then I asked: does a firm perswasion that a thing is so, make it so?

362: He replied, All poets that it does, & in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains;

363: but many are not capable of a firm perswasion of any thing.

364: Then Ezekiel said, The philosophy of the east taught the first principles of human perception:

365: some nations held one principle for the origin & some another;

366: we of Israel taught that the Poetic Genius (as you now call it) was the first principle and all other others merely derivative,

367: which was the cause of our despising the priests & Philosophers of other countries,

368: and prophecying that all Gods would at last be proved to originate in ours & to be the tributaries of the Poetic Genius;