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The concluding lines of The Prelude present a picture of Wordsworth and Coleridge as joint-labourers in the service of mankind, looking forward to a better world:
Prophets of Nature, we to them will speak
A lasting inspiration, sanctified
By reason and by truth; what we have loved,
Others will love; and we may teach them how;
Instruct them how the mind of man becomes
A thousand times more beautiful than the earth
On which he dwells, .. (XIII. 442–8).
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Notes and References
Max Weber, The Sociology of Religion, trans. E. Fischoff (London, 1965) p. 46.
Lyrical Ballads, ed. by R. L. Brett and A. R. Jones (London, 1963) pp. 238–9.
Mircea Eliade, ‘Symbolisms of Ascension and “Waking Dreams”’, in Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (London, 1960; Fontana, 1968) p. 120.
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Watson, J.R. (1982). Lyrical Ballads: Preface and Preparation. In: Wordsworth’s Vital Soul. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05911-9_6
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