clear family, with its one working parent and its one parent staying at home to raise the children, is becoming less common and feasible even as the cost of living rises. Blake lived in an age where Deism, a faith which denied any possibility of direct experience with God, had captured the minds of the more intelligent people of the West; we live in an age of doubt, searching, rejection of traditional dogmatic religion, and science with no mystical experience. Certainly Blake's vision of a personal mythology actualizing an individual, revealed religion can offer as much to our society as it did to Blake's. However, whether Blake's offering will save our television-oriented, fast-food, pop-culture society is another question altogether. ...
