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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

Source: Lyrical Ballads, Preface (2nd ed., 1801). Among the causes Wordsworth perceived were, the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where
-- William Wordsworth, (Apr 7 1770-1850), English poet; His Lyrical Ballads, 1798 are noted for their worship of nature and humanitarianism; poet laureate, 1843-50.

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