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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

... to human life that few, if any, whether from sav ageness, or poverty, or philosophy, ever attempt to do without it. To many creatures there is in th... ...ture, or commerce, or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it... ...water. It was fit that I should live on rice, mainly, who love so well the philosophy of India. To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I... ...s was not indispensablenfor my discoveries were not by the syn thetic but analytic process and I have gladly omitted it since, though most housewive... ...g about the world in his own orbit, do ing it good, or rather, as a truer philosophy has dis covered, the world going about him getting good. When P... ...he necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history or philosophy, or poetry, no mat ter how well selected, or the best society, ...

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