States of Unawareness

1. The human mind is capable of greater subtlety than many assume, and it does not need excessive stimulus to become interested and attentive. Life in the city prevents us from discovering this because we are so surrounded by stimulation that we cannot break through it to contemplate the small, the quiet, the valuable things around us. The country, however, provides the peace and quiet that allows us to select our stimuli more carefully and so to examine and understand the world around us with greater facility, enabling us to see the evil perpetrated by the gross entertainments and excitations of urban life.

2. Wordsworth in this sentence is stating that for several reasons of recent origin, there are forces acting in societ

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