Blake's vision of the universe was formed in direct opposition to Deism ("Natural Religion"), the dominant philosophy of his day. Deism was the intellectual response by the Church to the rise of Newtonian physics. Newton's view of the world as a huge machine, a giant clock, had to be reconciled with traditional concepts of God and soul. Deism accommodated all views by making God the "primary mover," the deity that put the machine into motion. As described in The Blake Dictionary, "[Blake's universe] is one of immediate sensuous and imaginative perception, not geometrical logic; psychological, not material....It is egocentric. Each individual is the center of his own universe.... Everything the individual sees is a projection of his own personality." THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION The Argument. Man has no notion of moral fitness but from Education. Naturally he is only a natural organ subject to Sense. I. Man cannot naturally Perceive but through his natural or bodily organs. II. Man by his reasoning power can only compare & judge of what he has already perceiv'd. III. From a perception of only 3 senses or 3 elements none could deduce a fourth or fifth. IV. None could have other than natural or organic thoughts if he had none but organic perceptions. V. Man's desires are limited by his perceptions, none can desire what he has not perceiv'd. VI. The desires & perceptions of man, untaught by any thing but organs of sense, must be limited to objects of sense. Conclusion. If it were not for the Poetic or Prophetic character the Philosophic & Experimental would soon be at the ratio of all things, & stand still, unable to do other than repeat the same dull round over again.