Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?
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I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England 's green and pleasant land. (Blake preface.33-44)
During the industrial revolution, the world was going through rapid changes. Some, like William Blake did not just blindly accept the new changes and technologies. Instead, Blake holds this advancement to a higher standard. Namely, he juxtaposes the “Satanic mills” to the resplendent purity of Jerusalem and finds those mills lacking (Preface. 33-44). Blake desires England, his home, to be rid of the unrestrained “Satanic mills” and become more like holy Jerusalem (Preface.36).
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It is distinctly in the shape of a hand (466). In her work “The Invisible Hand Made Visible,” Cindy Weinstein explains that this is important because it seems to reflect the “invisible hand” economic idea about which enlightenment economist Adam Smith writes (726-727). The “invisible hand” is representative of a group of enlightenment thinker’s who think less governmental control is best. They think that greed in this open economy is perfectly acceptable or even to be encouraged (727). Ergo, when Aylmer reaches out and takes the invisible hand out of his greed, Hawthorne seems to be saying that greed does not make a society more free, but rather it destroys all freedom (727). This is because once the mark of the hand on Georgiana’s cheek is removed, she dies almost immediately (Hawthorne 475). In fact, during the beginning of the industrial revolution, Hawthorne likely sees the greed of those desperately seeking technological advance. Also, he sees when that greed is used, the weakest are destroyed, not by the “invisible hand,” but by the hand of the immoral scientist or