… about the manners of the rich; avarice, inordinate desires, and the effeminacy, unnaturalness, and unworthy objects of education. The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow. Friday, 3rd October. —Very rainy all the morning. Wm. walked to … about the manners of the rich; avarice, inordinate desires, and the effeminacy, unnaturalness, and unworthy objects of education. The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow." … Conversation … Nature … Education … Taken from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (New York: Macamillan, 1897), vol. 1, p. 50-52. Full vollume …