Henry Thoreau, As Remembered By a Young Friend, Edward Waldo Emerson
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A ruddy and lusty old dame, who delights in all weathers and seasons, and is likely to outlive all her children yet." Again he wrote: "I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune." They err entirely who suppose that he counselled every one to build hermitages in the woods, break with society and Uve on meal. This he distinctly disavows, but makes a plea for simple and brave living, not drowned in the details, not merely of cooking, sweeping, and dust- ing, but of politics, whether parish, to...wn, tate, or federal, and even of societies, ;eligious, professional, charitable, or so- |ial, for, after all, these are but prepara- bry, — police regulations on a larger or ! mailer scale, — designed as means to ] nake life possible, and not to be pursued 55 HENRY THOREAU as ends. Even by Walden, as he tells us, he wore a path, and he found that his life there was falling into it: evidently he saw it was incomplete, so, keeping its sweet kernel, he left the shell. In cheer- ful mood, years after, he discusses the matter: "Why did I change?
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