Then faction had destroyed his friends whom he believed to be its standard bearers.

What was in the world, in religion, in morality that such things could be?
In the face of this tremendous problem, Wordsworth, unlike Hamlet, was resolute and determined.

It was, perhaps, characteristic of him that in his desire to get his feet on firm rock again he fled for a time to the exactest of sciences--to mathematics.

But though he got certainties there, they must have been, one judges, certainties too arid for his thirsting mind.

Then he made his great discovery--helped to it, perhaps, by his sister Dorothy and his friend Coleridge--he found nature, and in nature, peace.
Not a very wonderful discovery, you will say, but though the cleansing and healing force of natural surroundings on the mind is a familiar enough idea in our own day, that is only because Wordsworth found it.
When he gave his message to the world it was a new message.