Monday, July 14, 2008

Speaking of William Blake...


There are times when I've walked through Foley Square here in New York City with all of its courthouses and government buildings, with St. Andrew's Church and its inscription "Beati Qui Ambulant in Lege Domini," and with Police Headquarters peeking through behind the church, and I've thought of these lines from Blake:

Prisons are built with stones of Law,
And brothels with bricks of Religion.

2 comments:

bls said...

I'm just about certain that brothels would have come into existence if religion had never been invented....

;-)

Counterlight said...

You may be right.