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He was one of that class of whom we hear a great deal, but, for the most part, see nothing at all,—the Puritans. It would be in vain to kill him. He died lately in the time of Cromwell, but he reappeared here. Why should he not? Some of the Puritan stock are said to have come over and settled in New England. They were a class that did something else than celebrate their forefathers’ day, and eat parched corn in remembrance of that time. They were neither Democrats nor Republicans, but men of simple habits, straightforward, prayerful; not thinking much of rulers who did not fear God, not making many compromises, nor seeking after available candidates. - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “A Plea for Captain John Brown” (1859), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 412, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

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Henry David Thoreau

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• Henry David Thoreau

eNotes:

• Henry David Thoreau (The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail)
• Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts (Transcendentalism)
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Encyclopedia:

• Thoreau, Henry David (West's Encyclopedia of American Law)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Military History)

Primary Sources:

• John Brown and Henry David Thoreau (Terrorism Reference)

Salem on Literature:

• The Essays of Henry David Thoreau (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
• Henry David Thoreau (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Walden; or, Life in the Woods Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Thoreau, Henry David (Poetry Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Henry David Thoreau is born
• Henry David Thoreau establishes residence at a cabin on Walden Pond, outside Concord, Massachusetts
• Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden; or, Life in the Woods
• Henry David Thoreau dies