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A MEMORABLE FANCY

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The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how

they dared so roundly to assert that God spoke to them; and whether they did

not think at the time that they would be misunderstood, and so be the cause

of imposition.

Isaiah answer'd: 'I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical

perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in everything, and as I

was then persuaded, and remain confirm'd, that the voice of honest

indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences, but wrote.'

Then I asked: 'Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?'

He replied: 'All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination

this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm

persuasion of anything.'

Then Ezekiel said: 'The philosophy of the East taught the first

principles of human perception. Some nations held one principle for the

origin, and some another: we of Israel taught that the Poetic Genius (as you

now call it) was the first principle and all the others merely derivative,

which was the cause of our despising the Priests and Philosophers of other

countries, and prophesying that all Gods would at last be proved to

originate in ours and to be the tributaries of the Poetic Genius. It was

this that our great poet, King David, desired so fervently and invokes so

pathetically, saying by this he conquers enemies and governs kingdoms; and

we so loved our God, that we cursed in his name all the Deities of

surrounding nations, and asserted that they had rebelled. From these

opinions the vulgar came to think that all nations would at last be subject

to the Jews.'

'This,' said he, 'like all firm persuasions, is come to pass; for all

nations believe the Jews' code and worship the Jews' god, and what greater

subjection can be?'

I heard this with some wonder, and must confess my own conviction.

After dinner I ask'd Isaiah to favour the world with his lost works; he said

none of equal value was lost. Ezekiel said the same of his.

 

I also asked Isaiah what made him go naked and barefoot three years. He

answer'd: 'The same that made our friend Diogenes, the Grecian.'

I then asked Ezekiel why he ate dung, and lay so long on his right

and left side. He answer'd, 'The desire of raising other men into a

perception of the infinite: this the North American tribes practise, and is

he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present

ease or gratification?'

 

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