The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo.

Praise is the practice of Art.

And did those feet in ancient time,Walk upon Englands mountains green:And was the holy Lamb of God,On Englands pleasant pastures seen!And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills?And was Jerusalem builded here,Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.