A Path not taken

I have decided that it is better to set up time for reflection than to do our last unit for the course.

Jonas Hanway's view is ameliorist. He is searching for a practical and realistic solution for a serious social problem.
Hanway wants to improve the conditions of society.

Scrotal cancer was the first example of an epidemiological disease. Before this cancer was established as related
to the working conditions of chimney sweepers, no link had been discovere between occupations and disease. See
link below. Hanway could not have known of this link, but his observations of his society caused him to try to improve
the working conidtions of these children.

William Blake, on the other hand, wants to shock his readers into a recognition that society, as it is constructed,
inherently engages in this kind of appalling injustice. Blake wants to re-make the society altogether.

Thursday, 6/6

HANWAY, Jonas. A Sentimental History of Chimney Sweepers, in London and Westminster. Shewing the Necessity of putting them under Regulations to prevent the grossest Inhumanity to the Climbing Boys. With a Letter to a London Clergyman on Sunday Schools. Calculated for the preservation of the Children of the Poor … [London]. Sold by Dodsley … & Sewell … 1785. William Blake, Chimney Sweeper poems From Songs of Innocence (text only) Songs of Innocence (text/illustration) From Songs of Experience (text/illustration)     Recommended but not required: "A Brief History of Scrotal Cancer"