Date: 1850

"But Nature then was sovereign in my mind, / And mighty forms, seizing a youthful fancy, / Had given a charter to irregular hopes."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"Nor was it mean delight / To watch crude Nature work in untaught minds; / To note the laws and progress of belief."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"So I fared, / Dragging all precepts, judgments, maxims, creeds, / Like culprits to the bar; calling the mind, / Suspiciously, to establish in plain day / Her titles and her honours"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"The mind is lord and master--outward sense / The obedient servant of her will"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"Moreover, each man's Mind is to herself / Witness and judge"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)