Blake was still young in spirit when he died. One feels with him, as with Tolstoi, that he had far from come to the end of his tether. He was one of the few to whose years another threescore might have been added with advantage. Where would he have arrived? I think when we remember that for more than twenty years before his death he was on the voyage of rediscovery, we may hazard the guess that he would have reached the catholic form of Christianity, having thrown overboard his private symbolism on the way; and that then he would have produced great, long poems of crystalline clearness, which would have placed him by the side of the master-poets of the ages. Yet it is idle work guessing at what might have been. We blame a man's times, or birth, or church, or what not for his failures, when we should look for some fundamental lack in his own equipment. That Blake was not quite one of our conquerors, then, we will not attribute to the eighteenth century or to Swedenborg's predominant influence in his early life, but simply to the fact that he lacked the strong, virile reason that could keep pace with the on-rush of his visions. He was all Los: Urizen, whom he repudiated with such scorn, alone could have balanced his nature and led him to the supreme achievement. INDEX _Abel the Shepherd_, 176 Abstract Philosophy, 109 _Adam and Eve observed by Satan_, 123 Aders, Mr and Mrs, 187 _Age of Reason_, 87, 93 Ahania, 111 Akashic Records, 132 Albion, 149-50 _America: A Prophecy_, 96-7, 98 American Independence, War of, 86, 87, 98 _Ancient of Days_, 101 _Angelic Wisdom_, 58 Angelico, Fra, 176 Arblay, M. d', 85 Asia, 109 Astrology, 172-3 Augustine, St, 152 Austen, Jane, 170 Barbauld, Mrs, 30 Bartolozzi, 17, 123, 154 Barton, Bernard, 174 _Bas Bleu_, 28 Basire, 17, 18 Bastille, the, 89, 90, 92 Bath, Lord, 29 Beaumont and Fletcher, 33 Beethoven, 170 Bible, the, 122, 133 Bildad, 184 Blair's _Grave_, 154-9 Blake, Catherine, 30, 31, 37, 38, 40, 66, 148 Blake, James (Sen.), 12, 39 Blake, James (Jun.), 39 Blake, Robert, 14, 39, 40, 45