William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, and with it the idea of 'contrary states of the human soul' are the consquences of Rousseau's view of human nature.
We are born innocent, and then are corrupted by society. From the vantage of Christian theology it is a heresy associated with a monk called Pelagius.
This view of fundamental human goodness is a standard view of the Enlightenment after Rousseau. So is the account of 'the fall' through society.
What is novel is the Romantics' account of redemption: we recover our lost innocence by means of what Blake and his fellow Romantics call 'the imagination'.
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