two 18th-century thinkers, the Earl of Shaftesbury and Lord Kames: Moral and religious sentiments are not the product of associations that need to be analyzed; they come directly from ex- perience.
That perspective, says Wilson, is one of the things that gave Wordsworth's poetry its beauty. But it was beauty and philoso- phy both that revived the young John Stu-

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art Mill and inspired him to reconcile "associationism" with Wordsworth's "ir-reducibility." In t...