Wordsworth wrote at the beginning of the Romantic
Movement, and one of the things the Romantics were most concerned about what the growth of cities, the commercialization of life, and the growing influence of science which tends to aim at controlling nature rather than realting to it. Scientific knowledge comes from "tuition," knowledge that is based on work, education, etc. The Romantics believe that the essential knowledge comes from "intuition," a spontaneous learning built into our nature through the congruence of our "nature" with that of "Nature.