Spreading out a little... this is challenging.. From Michael Ferber's The Social Vision of William Blake.
(blake) Would have seemed a succinct formulation of a basic error: "Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind." Love of nature can lead to nothing of the sort. However unfairly, Blake would have found damning Wordsworth's admission that it was his appreciation of solitary shepherds, who seemed so like nature herself, and of other men "purified, / Remov'd, and at a distance that was fit" (11.439-40), that led him to brotherly feelings. "I see in Wordsworth," Blake wrote, using terms drawn from the Corinthians verses quoted earlier, "the Natural Man rising up against the Spiritual Man Continually. Imagination is the Divine Vision not of The World nor of Man as. He is a Natural Man but only as he is a Spiritual Man" (E 666).
