In simplifying his own wants to include those imperative to the soul, the poet has thrown off all constraints preventing the soul from soaring. He sets himself to inquire why so few leaders arise from humble origins and concludes it is because the common person is overburdened with toiling to satisfy animal appetites and daily wants. He suddenly attacks the statesmen and their books for ineptitude in attempting to preserve the public economy and welfare. The poet's ethical strength was thus renewed he was able once again to give his intellect freer rein. The soul sees eternal good only in us and in our everyday lives, in contrast to the immorality and confusion so apparent in historical events. This attitude brings meekness and an indifference to ephemeral objects. He tells again of his futile intellectual search for wisdom and the reversion on his part to the dependence on nature and feeling, as in his youth. Both are essential to the creation of truth by the poet. He says the strength of nature lies in the fact that it can deliver moods of emotional excitement as well as of tranquility. As he continues his theory of the development of poetic genius, Wordsworth turns to one of his favorite themes: emotion recollected in tranquility.
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