Henry David Thoreau (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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Whether the words of Walden and “Resistance to Civil Government”
(“Civil Disobedience”) or the actions on which they are based have had greater
influence, it is clear that Thoreau’s life refutes the notion that the Transcendentalists spent
their time in the clouds rather than on earth. A skilled observer of nature as well as a citizen who
spoke his mind on current ethical questions, Thoreau made the idealism of Transcendental
philosophy a part of his daily life. At Walden Pond, he put into practice [The entire page is 880 words long]
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